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SANJIV KHANNA, SANJAY KUMAR
State of West Bengal – Appellant
Versus
Baishakhi Bhattacharyya (Chatterjee) – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SANJIV KHANNA, CJI.
Leave granted.
2. The impugned judgment dated 22.04.2024 en bloc sets aside the 2016 selection process conducted by the West Bengal Central School Service Commission1 [Hereinafter “WBSSC”] for the recruitment of non-teaching staff in Groups C and D, and Assistant Teachers for Classes IX and X, as well as Classes XI and XII.
3. The appellants before us are the selectees, some of whom have been working for over five years. They fall into two categories: (i) selectees with purported evidence and material indicating wrongdoing and (ii) other selectees who claim that they were validly selected and have committed no wrongdoing. The State of West Bengal and the WBSSC have also challenged the impugned judgment.
4. The respondents before us are the writ petitioners who have succeeded before the High Court at Calcutta. The Central Bureau of Investigation2 [Hereinafter “CBI”] which had carried out the investigation pursuant to the directions given by the High Court at Calcutta is also arraigned as a respondent.3 [Diary No. 21281/2024, SLP (C) 16643-45/2024, SLP (C) 18366/2024, SLP (C) 11721/2024, SLP (C) 14331/2024, SLP (C) 22110/2024, SLP (C) 25078/2024 etc.]
5. The
(1) Appointment – Cancellation of entire selection due to mass irregularities is justified.(2) Principles of Natural Justice cannot be invoked to validate fraud that has occurred – These principles a....
The court emphasized that the integrity of public employment selections must be maintained, ruling that the failure to publish the master answer key and deletion of original data rendered the selecti....
A candidate's right to selection cannot override the necessity for a fair examination process; substantial evidence of systemic irregularity justifies cancellation of examination results.
The selection process must be fair and transparent; systemic irregularities can invalidate the entire process, even if some candidates are innocent of wrongdoing.
Alteration of recruitment standards post-process violates constitutional fairness prohibitions under Articles 14 and 16.
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