The
West Bengal government has moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High
Court order invalidating the appointment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching
staff made by the state's School Service Commission (SSC) in state-run and
state-aided schools.
Challenging
the high court order, the state government, in its appeal filed before the top
court, said the HC cancelled the appointments "arbitrarily".
"The high court failed to appreciate the
ramification of cancelling the entire selection process leading to straightaway
termination of teaching and non-teaching staff from service with immediate
effect, without giving sufficient time to the petitioner state to deal with
such an exigency, rendering the education system at a stand-still," the
plea said.
The
Calcutta High Court had on Monday declared the selection process as "null
and void" and directed the CBI to probe the appointment process. It had
also asked the central agency to submit a report within three months.
The
high court said those appointed outside the officially available 24,640
vacancies, appointed after the expiry of the official date of recruitment, and
those who submitted blank Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets but obtained
appointment to return all remunerations and benefits received by them with 12
per cent interest per annum within four weeks.