The High Court allowed a teacher who faced technical glitches in online application submission during recruitment to submit the form offline within 8 January 2021 to participate in the 2021 recruitment process.
Direction to allow the petitioner to submit the form offline within 8 January 2021 to participate in the recruitment process.
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W.P.A. 11294 of 2020
Susmita Sardar. Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors.
Mr. Sk. Sahjahan Ali … For the Petitioner.
Mr. L. K. Gupta (Sr. Advocate) Mr. Subir Sanyal Mr. Ratul Biswas … For the Board.
Learned Counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has qualified in the Teachers Eligibility Tests (TET), but due to technical glitches, the petitioner could not complete online submission of his application as per direction of the notification dated 23rd November, 2020.
Learned Counsel on behalf of the petitioner prays for a direction upon the Board to allow the petitioner to submit the application offline so that he can participate in the recruitment process.
Mr. Gupta, learned Senior Counsel is also present.
Considering the submission made by the petitioner, more specifically narrated in paragraph 8 of the writ petition, I allow the petitioner to submit his form offline within 8th January, 2021 and to participate in the recruitment process of 2021 subject to fulfilling the conditions of eligibility as per recruitment Rules, 2016.
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The writ petition being WPA 11294 of 2020 is
disposed of.
There shall, however, be no order as to costs. Since no affidavit has been invited, the allegations made in the writ petition are not deemed to have been admitted.
Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be made available to the parties upon compliance with the requisite formalities.
(Rajarshi Bharadwaj, J.)
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the petitioner, who qualified in Teachers Eligibility Tests but faced technical glitches in online application submission, is entitled to submit the application offline.
Susmita Sardar
The State of West Bengal & Ors.
Rajarshi Bharadwaj
As recorded by the court registry
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