Justice Amrita Sinha of the high court could not hear on Wednesday a case related to the alleged link of Leaps and Bounds to the school job irregularities because a portion of her earlier order in the case was challenged before another bench of the court.
In the earlier order, Justice Sinha had asked the state primary education board to submit the entire list of candidates who had appeared in the 2014 teachers’ eligibility test.
Justice Sinha’s order on the submission of the list was stayed by a division bench of the high court headed by Justice Soumen Sen on Wednesday.
On December 12, Justice Sinha had asked the Enforcement Directorate to file a report on Wednesday on its probe into alleged irregularities in school recruitments.
When the case came up for hearing around 3.30pm on Wednesday, a junior of advocate Sudipta Dasgupta, who is representing the TET candidates who are claiming that they have been unfairly denied jobs, told Justice Sinha that his senior was busy before another bench of the court where an appeal had been moved against her earlier order.
The submission by the lawyer prompted Justice Sinha to adjourn the hearing of the case.
The ED was supposed to file a report during the day saying whether they could establish a link between the money suspected to have been collected from teachers of primary schools who were allegedly recruited illegally and Leaps and Bounds, a company linked to Trinamul leader Abhishek Banerjee.
Justice Sinha left the courtroom soon after adjourning the case.
A lawyer representing the primary education board moved an appeal before the division bench headed by Justice Sen, challenging Justice Sinha’s order to the board to submit the entire panel of candidates who appeared in the 2014 TET.
The division bench issued a four-week stay on this portion of Justice Sinha’s order and scheduled the next hearing for January 4.