Court cannot support fraudulent activity: HC

The Calcutta High Court on Friday held that the West Bengal government's proposed scheme to pay a stipend to non-teaching staff losing jobs following an order from the Supreme Court in April this year amounted to “fraudulent activity, cheating, and corruption” as it stayed the measure for now.

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A single-judge bench of Justice Amrita Sinha made this observation while putting an interim stay restraining from making payments for providing stipends for the non-teaching staff under the scheme christened “West Bengal Livelihood and Special Security Interim Scheme”.

A detailed study of the order, which was made available later in the evening, showed how the single-judge bench contended the payment of stipend to the non-teaching staff violated the Supreme Court order in April that not only terminated the jobs but also ordered for refund of salaries paid to candidates “tainted” by getting jobs through fraudulent means.