{"id":43069,"date":"2016-05-20T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43069"},"modified":"2016-05-21T05:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T23:39:59","slug":"calcutta-high-court-cancels-civic-police-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/calcutta-high-court-cancels-civic-police-appointments","title":{"rendered":"Calcutta High Court cancels all civic police appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37876\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/cullcutta-HC.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37876\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/calcutta-hc-lawyers-stay-away-due-to-heat-litigants-suffercj-unhappy\/cullcutta-hc\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/cullcutta-HC.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cullcutta HC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/cullcutta-HC.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-37876 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/cullcutta-HC.jpg?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Calcutta High Court cancels all civic police appointments\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calcutta High Court cancels all civic police appointments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Observing that the appointment process of civic police volunteers in West Bengal was &#8220;a sham with systematic malice&#8221;, the Calcutta High Court today ordered the state government to cancel all such appointments by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Passing an order on a batch of writ petitions filed by some unsuccessful candidates, Justice Sanjib Banerjee said there was &#8220;a systematic malice&#8221; in the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment process was &#8220;legally and morally a sham,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>In two police stations of Bankura district&#8211;Sarenga and Barikul, where the irregularities were detected, the court said it is only the &#8220;tip of an iceberg&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It ordered the government to immediately cancel all appointments in these two police station areas and for the rest of the selections, the deadline for cancelling appointments was December 31, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The HC asked the government to form a three-member committee headed by the Finance Secretary to formulate fresh guidelines for the recruitment exam which will have 80 per cent objective questions and 20 per cent subjective.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will submit its report to the state chief secretary after three months and the government can then make fresh appointments under new rules.<\/p>\n<p>The court had already stayed the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>All documents related to the case will kept in an archive of the court for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observing that the appointment process of civic police volunteers in West Bengal was &#8220;a sham with systematic malice&#8221;, the Calcutta High Court today ordered the state government to cancel all such appointments by the end of this year. 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