State Tells Calcutta HC Over Tainted Candidates’ Eligibility To Take Re-Test
The State of West Bengal has instructed the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom that disallowing ‘tainted’ candidates within the recruitment rip-off from re-taking the TET examination would lead to double punishment after their jobs and salaries had already been taken away by the Supreme Courtroom’s order.
Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandopadhyay instructed a single bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharaya that the Supreme Courtroom order didn’t expressly disbar tainted candidates from re-taking the take a look at, however as a substitute held that tainted candidates wouldn’t get the age-relaxation which might be granted to the untainted candidates.
He additional submitted that such a transfer would quantity to double punishment, and that the contaminated candidates had “suffered” sufficient after the Supreme Courtroom order terminating their jobs and directing a refund of any salaries obtained.
“As soon as they’ve already been terminated and directed to refund, that’s it, Chapter closed,” Bandopadhyay argued.
Nonetheless, Justice Bhattacharya said that the candidates must face the results for the actions taken by them in utilising a tainted recruitment course of.
Bandopadhyay, nevertheless, argued that punishing these candidates twice could be a violation of their Proper To Life below Article 21 of the Structure.
