Might 23, 2025 10:10 PM IST
The excessive courtroom additionally directed the agitating academics of state-run colleges to shift their protest venue to Central Park in Salt Lake
KOLKATA: The Calcutta excessive courtroom on Friday directed the police to not take any coercive steps towards protesting academics who misplaced their jobs in April this yr after a Supreme Court docket verdict.
Academics and non-teaching employees stage a sit-in protest towards police lathi-charge on protesters on Might 15 in entrance of Bikash Bhawan throughout a protest. (ANI FILE)
The excessive courtroom additionally directed the agitating academics of state-run colleges to shift their protest venue to Central Park in Salt Lake, situated reverse Bikash Bhavan, the state’s training division headquarters, and advised the authorities to make the requisite preparations for them
“In view of the issues relating to protest, the state is directed to treat the agitators with a humane face and to that extent, if it is possible, the concerned administration would see to that a temporary structure is made available to the agitating members so that the scorching heat do not affect the health of the individuals concerned,” justice Tirthankar Ghosh mentioned, directing the municipal company to make preparations for ingesting water and bio-toilets.
The instructions had been handed on a petition by a gaggle of academics, who got here collectively underneath the Deserving Academics Rights Discussion board, to quash FIRs registered towards protesting academics. A number of individuals had been injured on Might 15 when a piece of the 2016-batch academics, who misplaced their jobs after the apex courtroom’s verdict within the bribe-for-job case, clashed with police personnel who tried to take away their street blockade in Bidhannagar.
.“As there have been no further complaints till date after a sporadic incident on May 15, I direct the police authorities to go slow in respect of all the accused persons. The police authorities will not take any coercive steps against any accused till further orders of this court,” the excessive courtroom mentioned.
The bench additionally directed the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling to not give any impact to the show-cause notices issued to the academics after final week’s conflict.
On April 3, the highest courtroom scrapped the appointments of all 2016-batch college academics and Group-C and D employees saying there was no method to segregate the contaminated from the non-tainted.
The appointments had been first cancelled by the Calcutta excessive courtroom in 2023, and the Supreme Court docket order got here on an enchantment filed by the state authorities.
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