WB school recruitment scam: SC partially stays Calcutta HC order
Extends interim protection to appointees.
Extends interim protection to appointees.
Noting the delay by the State police in arresting Shahjahan Sheikh, Justice Gavai asked senior advocate Jaideep Gupta why Shahjahan Sheikh was not arrested for so many days.
The Supreme Court took an unprecedented step in the wake of conflicting back-to-back orders passed by the single judge and the division bench of the Calcutta High Court on an issue relating to a caste certificate.
As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court will hear the suo motu matter in a special sitting on Saturday.
Accordingly, the existing public prosecutor, Sashwatagopal Mukhopadhyay, has been replaced by advocate Debasish Roy.
In the PIL, Chowdhury quoted the affidavits filed by these leaders with the Election Commission of India (ECI) while filing their nominations for various elections that showed the inflation in the assets of these leaders over the years.
A division bench, headed by Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and comprising Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj, directed the state government to file its affidavit within the three weeks.
The PIL also observed that although there was use of bulldozers in some other states, in West Bengal they do not want a replication of that and instead want all actions as per law.
The CBI is already conducting a probe into the recruitment irregularities in various teaching and non-teaching posts by the West Bengal School Service Commission
It is learnt that due to overcrowding, the air-conditioning machines of the auditorium lost its desired cooling effect which created suffocation at the venue.
