10,323 case : Government directed by high court to produce all documents including the 2001 recruitment policy on next date of hearing on August 8

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, July 18, 2025

Tripura government is gradually driving itself in a spot of bother over three ongoing cases in the high court of the state filed by the jinxed 10,323 group of teachers after obtaining ‘liberty’ from the supreme court to pursue the matter in the high court. The cases had been filed a long time ago and on all occasions the state represented by its lawyers panel including the advocate general Shaktimay Chakraborty had failed to produce vital documents including the 2001 recruitment policy sought by the court. Yesterday also the matter came up for hearing in the bench headed by Justice Sabyasachi Datta Purkayastha but the state failed to produce the documents including annexures sought by the court and additional government advocate D.Sharma sought time for submitting the voluminous documents. Despite his visible annoyance Justice Sabyasachi Datta Purkayastha directed the government to produce the 2001 recruitment policy and annexures on the next date, that is August 8 when the case will come up afresh for hearing.

Sources in the high court said that three cases had been filed in the high court on behalf of the illegally retrenched 10,323 teachers by Bidhan Das (PGT), Subhas Singh (UGT) and Santanu Bhattacharjee (GT) through advocates T.K.Naike, Amrit Lal Saha and Aveek Saha. The cases filed on the basis of ‘liberty’ granted by the supreme court seek to establish that the 10,323 teachers had been retrenched illegally in violation of the provisions of constitution and service procedure law as also to prove that the retrenched teachers had been recruited in 2010 and in early 2014 as per the provisions of recruitment policy introduced in 2001 and not 2003, as claimed by the government and earlier petitioners against them, as there is as yet no proof that any new recruitment policy had been notified in 2003. Moreover, as many as 209 illegally retrenched teachers have so far died including 35 who committed suicide after the illegal retrenchment with effect from April 1 2020.

Sources said that already there is a case on in the supreme court filed by a retrenched graduate teacher Narayan Sutradhar with whom is tagged another graduate teacher Pranab Deb. Sources among illegally retrenched teachers said that they will wait for the verdict of the high court and , if necessary, will reactivate the case already in supreme court.

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