Controversy over continued service of 19 science teachers recruited in 2012 without withdrawing cases

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, October 28, 2025

A controversy has erupted over continued service of altogether 19 science teachers who had filed cases against retrenched 10,323 teachers on ground of faulty and annulled recruitment policy of 2003. The controversy is all the more because the 19 teachers who had been petitioners in cases against 10,323 teachers were recruited on the same annulled recruitment policy and did not even withdraw their petitions before or after getting jobs as assistant teachers in 2012. They continue in service .

Sources who disclosed this information said that altogether 42 aspirants for jobs including the 19 science teachers had filed petitions against the 10,323 teachers , challenging the recruitment policy of 2003 but in the year 2012 they themselves got the jobs of science teachers under the same policy which was later annulled by the high court bench of then chief justice Deepak Kumar Gupta and Justice Swapan Chandra Das. However , a case against their continuation in service was rejected and their appointment and service upheld by former chief justice Aquil Qureshi and justice Arindam Lodh in 2020 but the fact remains that they are yet to withdraw their petitions against the now-retrenched 10,323 teachers. “We do not want them to lose jobs but we want our jobs back; however we are surprised by the verdicts of dual nature on the same plea over recruitment policy; our plea for continuation in service and later reinstatement is still pending but these 19 teachers, recruited on the same ‘unconstitutional’ and annulled recruitment policy remains in service and have been prospering ; two yardsticks can not be invoked by the judiciary in the cases of similar nature ; let them continue in service but we demand reinstatement” said a leader of the retrenched 10,323 teachers.

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