WBSSC job case: Calcutta HC raises questions on new recruitment notification

A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, made crucial observations questioning certain points in the recruitment notification issued by West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) to fill up the posts which fell vacant following the cancellation of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run schools by the Supreme Court.

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While hearing a petition challenging the new recruitment notification, the single-judge bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya questioned why the commission introduced new "weightage criteria" in the new recruitment notification when the order from the apex court was clear that the rules for the new recruitment process should be the same as were being followed in 2016, the entire panel of which was cancelled.

The second observation was why in the new notification, the candidates already identified as "tainted" were not barred from participating in the new recruitment process despite the apex court giving a clear direction in the matter in its order in April this year.