Calcutta HC orders keep on Bengal govt stipend for college employees sacked by SC

Jun 20, 2025 01:11 PM IST Chief minister Mamata Banerjee introduced on April 26 month-to-month stipends of ₹25,000 and ₹20,000 for jobless Group-C and D employees, respectively Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court ordered a keep until September 26 on the West Bengal authorities’s month-to-month stipend for 2016-batch Group-C and D college employees, whose appointments have been scrapped by the Supreme Court in April over a bribe-for-job case, in response to attorneys who have been current on the listening to on Friday. The contempt petition was filed by a bit of the 25,752 lecturers and non-teaching employees appointed in 2016. (AP/Representative Image) Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had introduced on April 26 month-to-month stipends of ₹25,000 and ₹20,000 for the jobless Group-C and D employees, respectively. “The order directed the state to file an affidavit in four weeks explaining why public money should be used to pay stipend to people whose appointments have been cancelled by the Supreme Court without provision for any relief,” lawyer Firdous Shamim, who represented petitioners difficult the stipend, mentioned. The order, which is seen as a setback for the ruling Trinamool Congress authorities (TMC), was handed by the one bench of Justice Amrita Sinha. The final listening to befell on June 9, when the decide had reserved the order. The contempt petition was filed by a bit of the 25,752 lecturers and non-teaching employees appointed in 2016. Senior advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya advised the court docket on June 9, on behalf of the petitioners, that the state had violated the Supreme Court’s April 3 determination, which didn’t grant any aid to the non-teaching Group-C and Group-D employees. When Justice Sinha raised questions on the stipend scheme, the state’s attorneys mentioned the federal government desires to quickly present “limited livelihood, support and social security” to households of the Group-C and Group-D workers on humanitarian floor. Also Read: Bengal colleges grapple with disaster as 26,000 lecturers, employees depart following SC order The appointments of all 25,752 college lecturers and non-teaching employees (Group-C and D) from the 2016 recruitment panel have been cancelled by the bench of the Chief Justice of India on April 3 after a sequence of hearings. The bench mentioned there was no strategy to segregate the contaminated from the non-tainted. On an enchantment by the state, the highest court docket mentioned on April 17 that the non-tainted lecturers could also be allowed to proceed in service till December 31, however they need to undergo a recent choice take a look at. Allowing age restrict rest for these folks, the court docket directed the state to begin the method by May 31 and full it in three months. The high court docket didn’t enable any aid for the non-teaching employees. Also Read: Bengal govt questions contempt petition in instructor recruitment case in excessive court docket On the orders of Calcutta High Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) began a probe into the appointment of non-teaching employees (Group C and D) and instructing employees by the West Bengal School Service Commission and the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education between 2014 and 2021, when TMC’s Partha Chatterjee was training minister. Many appointees allegedly paid bribes within the vary of ₹5–15 lakh to get jobs after failing the choice checks. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which began a parallel probe, arrested Chatterjee in July 2022. The ED filed fees towards him, ex-primary training board president and legislator Manik Bhattacharya, and 52 others in January this 12 months.