On Monday the Calcutta High Court declared the entire panel of 2016 School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment null and void. All appointments from 9th to 12th and groups C and D where irregularities were found have also been declared null and void. All together around 24,000 jobs have been cancelled.
A division bench comprising justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi also directed the CBI to undertake further investigation in respect of the appointment process, and submit a report in three months.
The court has instructed the administration to take action on fresh appointemnts in the next 15 days. The bench directed the West Bengal School Service Commission to initiate a fresh appointment process.
Over 23 lakh candidates had appeared for the 2016 SLST for 24,640 vacant posts. The whole panel of recruitment by the West Bengal Education Board and the SSC board has been declared null and void by the court.
The high court stated that there have been 17 types of scams/corruption within the SSC scam. This includes fake OMR sheets, bringing in agencies, involvement of SSC officials in destroying the original OMR sheets, mirror image, creation of supernumerary posts to accommodate people who were not there in the original list.
Anyone who has illegally received recruitment needs to return their salary to the Government/Board within a specified time.
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