The Calcutta High Court has directed the CBI to probe the alleged irregularities in the appointments of 269 teachers in the State-run primary schools. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay in his order on Monday directed president of the WB Board of Primary Education Manik Bhattacharya and the Secretary to appear before the agency.
“In view of the illegality committed in respect of the second panel (termed as Additional Panel, by the Secretary of the Board), which is wholly illegal and giving illegal appointment to 269 candidates by a queer method unknown to law, I direct the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’, for short) to start investigation by registering a case immediately against the Board,” the order had stated.<SU>The Court said that the panel was illegal and that the salaries of these teachers working in various schools of the state be stopped and that they be disallowed from entering their respective places of work.
The petitioner had approached the Court alleging that the 269 candidates were given an additional one number (marks) for a wrong question out of around 23 lakh aspirants in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) in 2014. Justice Gangopadhyay had directed the CBI to investigate at least ten cases of alleged illegalities in the appointment of teaching and non-teaching staff by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education in State run schools.
