The high court on Wednesday refused to stay the counselling that the West Bengal School Service Commission will hold on March 23 for waitlisted candidates to fill up vacancies created after the cancellation of appointment of 785 Group C employees who got jobs in government-aided schools illegally.
The commission has called 100 candidates on Thursday.
The terminated Group C employees had moved an appeal before the division bench headed by Justice Subrata Talukdar seeking a stay on the counselling.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the same court had ordered the termination of services. While seeking a stay on the counselling, the lawyer representing the terminated employees challenged the logic behind the termination.
On March 9, the WBSSC uploaded on its website the OMR sheets of 3,030 candidates whose scores stored on the WBSSC server varied from the marks stored on the hard disc of the agency engaged by the commission to evaluate the OMR sheets.
The CBI had recovered the hard disc and shared the details with the WBSSC.
The marks of these 3,030 candidates on the WBSSC server were found to be more than the ones on the hard disk, a WBSSC official said.
Of the 3,030, 785 candidates had been recommended and their services were terminated, the official said.
During the hearing, the lawyer representing those terminated raised questions about the credibility of the agency that scanned the OMR sheets.
The lawyer wondered if the sheets uploaded by the WBSSC could be accepted because, he alleged, they could have been tampered with.
The CBI’s counsel refused to accept this and cited the technology used by the agency. The court declined to stay the counselling.