Bengal SSC scam: High court hears challenge petition, but fate of 803 teachers undecided
Division Bench reserves order; last week, judge asked that steps be taken to cancel appointments of 1,911 Group D school staff. The West Bengal School Service Commission finds no reason to re-examine the Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) sheets -- whose digital records were seized from Ghaziabad by the CBI and sent to the Commission to ascertain recruitment fraud -- or question their authenticity since they were “identical replicas” of the original answer scripts which are now destroyed. Calcutta High Court The submission was made by the Commission before the Division Bench of Justices Subrata Talukdar and Supratim Bhattacharya of the Calcutta High Court which kept its order in reserve after concluding the hearing of challenge petitions moved before the court by the aggrieved secondary school teachers whose appointments are all set to be revoked on the basis of an SSC affidavit submitted in court. Last week, following the Commission’s admission of its “fault”, Justice Abhijit Ganguly set...