Kolkata, April 22: The Calcutta High Court on Monday canceled all 2016 teacher appointments (over 25,000) in West Bengal government-aided and aided schools across the state, legal sources said. A Division Bench headed by Justice Debangsu Basak https://www.cdjlawjournal.com/judge-profile1.php?id=808&cid=15 and Shabbar Rashidi  https://www.calcuttahighcourt.gov.in/Judges/283 declared all appointments null and void in 2016, but ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a thorough investigation to find out all the methods and processes of the appointments and submit a report to the court after three months.
The Double Bench ordered the West Bengal School Service Commission to start a new appointment process within two weeks.2016.
Reacting to the Calcutta High Court order, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said BJP leaders are influencing the judiciary and the judgments.
BJP Bengal targeted the Trinamool government and said Ms Banerjee and her no. 2 in the party, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, are set to face defeat.
More than 23,000 candidates appeared for the 24,640 vacancies in the state-level entrance exams in 2018.The CBI also arrested former education minister Partha Chatterjee and a dozen senior state officials in the education ministry.
These observations came after the bench ordered the re-evaluation of the OMR sheets from the 2016 recruitment exam in the ongoing proceedings in the cash-for-jobs multi-tier recruitment scam.
It was found during the re-evaluation that the teachers recruited on the panel had been recruited illegally since they had been recruited against blank OMR sheets. The court ordered those recruited in such a way to immediately surrender the salaries drawn by them to the jurisdictional magistrate.
About 25,753 people are affected by the teacher appointment scam, the source said, in which money was diverted to unqualified jobs while depriving qualified candidates., both men and women.The court also ordered them to return their salary within four weeks.
Neeraj Tiwari