Cash-for-jobs case: Calcutta High Court berates West Bengal government for defying Supreme Court orders in fresh recruitment
The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday pulled up the State of West Bengal for defying Supreme Courtroom orders by allowing candidates declared as tainted within the cash-for-jobs recruitment rip-off to reapply within the contemporary recruitment drive.
The one-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya requested the Counsel showing for the state authorities to clarify why there was no categorical bar to debar the contaminated candidates from making use of within the contemporary recruitment course of notified by the West Bengal authorities on Might 30, 2025.
Noting that there have been the loopholes within the notification, the single-judge Bench stated it was not interfering since go away was granted within the case.
The petitioners moved the Apex Courtroom difficult the state authorities’s recruitment notification.
They submitted that the notification didn’t comprise any prohibition on the candidates who had been ousted from their jobs by the Apex Courtroom from making use of underneath the current course of.
They additional stated that the state’s notification didn’t heed the highest court docket order.
The Excessive Courtroom granted liberty to the petitioners to hunt clarification earlier than the Supreme Courtroom.
The Counsel showing for the state authorities prayed for time to return again at a later date with clarifications.
