Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal Primary Education Board to submit the names of the persons who interviewed the applicants for the posts of teacher in government-aided primary schools in 2016.
The judge also asked the chairman of the board to inform the court the exact meaning of “aptitude test” after consulting experts. The court should also be told about the names of the experts consulted by the board.
Both lists — of the names of the interviewers and that of the experts — will have to be tabled in the court in a sealed cover on February 6. That day, the case related to allegedly illegal appointment of teachers in primary schools will again come up for hearing before the bench.
The day’s order followed the questioning of 19 primary school teachers by the judge.
Also on Tuesday, while hearing cases of allegedly illegal appointment in secondary schools, Justice Biswajit Basu directed the CBI to interrogate the teachers who got jobs illegally. The CBI, the judge said, should ask the teachers for the names of the persons whom they had paid money for their jobs.
The judge asked: “Is this a joke? Why are the investigators not being able to identify the persons who took money from the candidates? The court is not ready to hear any excuse. The persons must be identified.”
The judge asked the chairman of the school service commission whether it wasready to fill the vacancies that would arise in secondary schools once the services of 4,487 teachers who allegedly got jobs illegally were terminated.
The judge asked the SSC to publish by January 31 the OMR sheets of the 4,487 candidates who, the court said, had already been identified as having got their jobs illegally.
The case will be heard again on February 8.