Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene in the fresh SSC recruitment drive. On July 16, a Calcutta High Court division bench dismissed four appeals against the 2025 drive. The SC dismissed a challenge against it, saying it would not interfere in this process.An SC division bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said there was no merit in this appeal against the Calcutta HC judgment and that it would not interfere. When Senior Advocate Bikash Bhattacharya said he wanted to withdraw his appeal, the SC posed him some tough questions. “You will try your luck in the SC, and then approach other courts… this practice needs to be stopped. This is a bad practice. SLPs are not gambles. It is unfortunate when lawyers do this,” Justice Kumar told Bhattacharya, who appeared for the 2016 waitlisted candidates. The SC refused to allow him to withdraw the petition and dismissed it.Justice Kumar, who was earlier part of the bench with Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna, who dismissed the jobs of 25,572 school staffers and ordered fresh recruitment by Dec 31, also said, “Who are you? The deserving or the undeserving? Those undeserving have been put out of the fresh recruitment drive. We never said recruitment rules were frozen. We have also not laid out the process under which the recruitment will be made. SSC is a responsible body. At this juncture, they can decide on the recruitment. Why are you twisting the SC order?”The primary point of argument for the teachers, who moved the high court and SC, is the 10 additional marks the SSC has chosen for all ‘deserving’ candidates who have requisite experience. The teachers who moved court are wait-listed candidates in the 2016 panel. They argued that the extra marks put them at a disadvantageous position, compared to those with experience.
