Supreme Court of India

Ali Hossain Mandal & Ors. v. West Bengal Board of Primary Education & Ors.

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Reported as [2024] 5 S.C.R. 935
Bench Hrishikesh Roy and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 9 May 2024

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we are of the opinion that even if it is assumed that the panel or select list had not expired at the date of filing of the writ petition, the refusal on the part of the Government to make appointments from the panel or select list, vide letter dated 27-5-1993, could not be condemned as arbitrary, irrational and or mala fide.

Judgment, page 12

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Issue for Consideration Whether the manner of shortlisting candidates for appointment to the posts of primary teacher as directed by the Division Bench was in departure from the procedure envisaged under Rule 8 of the West Bengal Primary School Teachers Recruitment Rules, 2016; whether the remaining 3929 vacancies of primary school teachers were to be treated exclusively as part of 16,500 vacancies for which the recruitment process commenced via Notification dated 23.12.2020, or whether such vacancies can be carried forward to the next recruitment cycle that commenced via Notification dated

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