2024 Supreme(SC) 506
HRISHIKESH ROY, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA
Ali Hossain Mandal – Appellant
Versus
West Bengal Board Of Primary Education – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Gohlam, Adv.Mr. Vinay Navare Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Dr. Ram Kishore Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Usman Siddiqui, Adv. Mrs. Aisha Siddiqui, Adv. Ms. Sakeena Quidwai, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Abhishek Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Hassan Zubair Waris, Adv. Mr. Aakarsh, Adv. Ms. Suchit Singh Rawat, Adv. Ms. Shivangi, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Soumik Ghosal, AOR Mr. Vinay Navare, Sr. Adv. Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Abhishek Amritanshu, Adv. Mr. Hassan Zubair Waris, Adv. Ms. Shivangi, Adv. Mr. Aakarsh, Adv. Mr. Suchit Singh Rawat, Adv. Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, AOR Ms. Srija Choudhury, Adv. Ms. Osheen Bhat, Adv. Ms. Nitipriya Kar, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Ms. Manisha T. Karia, AOR Mr. Rohan Trivedi, Adv. Ms. Swapnil Baudh, Adv. Mr. Deepin Shani, Adv. Ms. Ananya Arora, Adv. M/S. Equity Lex Associates, AOR Mr. Salman Khurshid, Adv. Mrs. Naghma Imtiaz, Adv. Mr. Zargham Ahmed, Adv. Ms. Sidra Khan, Adv. Ms. Riddhi Goyal, Adv. Ms. Sonika Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Adv. Ms. Neha Rathi, AOR Mr. Kamal Kishore, Adv. Ms. Kajal Giri, Adv. Mr. Lavkesh Bhambhani, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Pratap, Adv. Mr. Harshwardhan Thakur, Adv. Mr. Parminder Singh Bhullar, AOR Mr. Dibyadyuti Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Sumedha Halder, Adv. Mr. Ali Ahasan Alamgir, Adv. Mr. Asif Iqbal, Adv. Mr. Rohit Jaiswal, Adv. Mr. Srikanth Reddy Gopavaram, Adv. Mr. Samreddy Bharath Simha Redd, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR Mr. Bijay Kumar Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv. Ms. Suhasni Bangopadhyaya, Adv. Tejasavni Ghose, Adv. Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AOR Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR Mr. Arvind Gupta, AOR Mr. Anindya Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Raghavendra Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Amit Suden, Adv. M/S. Mukesh Kumar Singh And Co., AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Pawan Kumar Dhiman, Adv. Mr. Ikshit Singhal, Adv. Ms. Kajal Rani, Adv. Ms. Sujata K Muni, Adv. Mr. J S Maratha, Adv. Mr. Rahul Maratha, Adv. Mr. Subhasish Bhowmick, AOR Ms. Manisha Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kushwaha, Adv. Ms. Neerja Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sohit Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Ashutosh Singh, Adv. Mr. Devesh Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Satender Kr. Vashistha, Adv. Mr. Rauf Rahim, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. Ali Rahim, Adv. Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Dama Seshadri Naidu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mandeep Kalra, AOR Ms. Chitrangada Singh, Adv. Mr. Rauf Rahim, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dibyendu Chatterjee, Adv. Mr. Firdous Samim, Adv. Mr. Ali Asghar Rahim, Adv. Ms. Piyali Paul, Adv. Ms. Fatima Baig, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR
JUDGMENT :
Hrishikesh Roy, J.
1. Heard Mr. Jaideep Gupta and Ms. Meenakshi Arora, learned senior counsel appearing for the appellants. Also heard Mr. Vinay Navare, Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Mr. Salman Khurshid, Mr. Rauf Rahim and Mr. Dama Seshadri Naidu, learned senior counsel, Ms. Sumedha Halder and Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, learned counsel appearing for the respondents & impleaders.
2. Relevant facts for the sake of convenience are taken from Civil Appeal Nos. 1875-1876 of 2024, filed by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education [hereinafter referred to as ‘Board’].
FACTUAL MATRIX
3. The origin of the dispute lies in the Board’s Notification dated 23.12.2020 for filling up 16,500 vacancies of primary school teachers with a qualification criterion of possessing the minimum NCTE-prescribed training qualification and having qualified the Teacher Eligibility Test 2014 [hereinafter referred to as ‘TET-2014’]. Thereafter, a Merit List for 15,284 candidates was notified on 15.02.2021. Subsequently, two more Merit Lists were published, covering all the 16,500 vacancies that were notified by the Board. As per the West Bengal Primary School Teachers Recruitment Rules, 2016 [hereinafter referr
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