A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta said, “We are not convinced that the impugned order requires any interference. The SLP is dismissed.”
In a major setback to Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee's government, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Calcutta High Court's decision to cancel the appointment of 25,753 teachers in West Bengal government run schools, stating that the entire selection process was vitiated by “manipulation and fraud."
Justice Joymalya Bagchi was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on Monday. With his swearing-in the strength of the top court judges has gone upto 33 against its sanctioned strength of 34 judges. He was administered oath by the Chief Justice of India, Justice Sanjiv Khanna.
Extends interim protection to appointees.
Noting the delay by the State police in arresting Shahjahan Sheikh, Justice Gavai asked senior advocate Jaideep Gupta why Shahjahan Sheikh was not arrested for so many days.
The Supreme Court took an unprecedented step in the wake of conflicting back-to-back orders passed by the single judge and the division bench of the Calcutta High Court on an issue relating to a caste certificate.
As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court will hear the suo motu matter in a special sitting on Saturday.
Accordingly, the existing public prosecutor, Sashwatagopal Mukhopadhyay, has been replaced by advocate Debasish Roy.
For failing to hand over probe papers to CBI in Alipurduar scam case
Although the order was passed on Friday, a copy of that order was uploaded to the website on Saturday.
