A division bench of Calcutta High Court has asked the state school service commission to upload on its website OMR sheets of the candidates who wrote the state-level selection test in 2016 and are working as assistant teachers in government-aided higher secondary schools, upholding an order by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the court.
The division bench headed by Justice Soumen Sen, which issued the order on Wednesday, also ruled that the OMR sheets of the waitlisted candidates, too, would have to be uploaded.
The bench told the commission not to scrap the job of any teacher now, saying that would depend on the outcome of a special leave petition filed in the Supreme Court by secondary school teachers, who challenged their dismissal on the ground of irregularities in recruitment.
SSC chairperson Siddhartha Majumder said: “We will take decisions after studying the court order.”
Justice Gangopadhyay had on July 7 ordered the SSC to upload the OMR sheets of 5,500-odd candidates, who had appeared in the 2016 selection tests and are now working as assistant teachers.
He issued the order while hearing an appeal by Bobita Sarkar, whose appointment in a school was scrapped by the court in May because she was given more marks than she deserved.
Lawyers in the case said Bobita had moved the appeal for uploading of OMR sheets of the selected candidates because the CBI had recovered 907 sheets that had allegedly been tampered with.
Some in-service teachers challenged the July 7 order in the division bench, which upheld the order of Justice Gangopadhyay.