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AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Chairmen, District Primary School Councils have further observed that if the earlier process of recruitment of Primary School Teachers is allowed to be completed a large number deserving candidates will be prejudiced in the selection process and some under merited and undeserved candidates may be appointed which may cause serious loss to the development of Primary Education in the aforesaid four Districts and will be against the Government policy towards maintenance of transparency in the recruitment process of Primary Teachers and may accordingly cause serious public harm;

9. WP 9739(W) of 2012 (Sri Atanu Chakraborty and ors. v. State of West Bengal and ors.) was a writ petition presented by candidates hailing from the district of Howrah, in which the said G.O. was not under challenge. It was, however, placed in course of hearing before the writ court. His Lordship held that the since the petitioners had been given the opportunity to participate in the written examination, no prejudice would be caused by reason of the same (i.e., the said G.O.). while granting liberty to the petitioners to challenge the said G.O., the writ petition was dismissed by judgment and order dated 22nd June, 2012. An appeal was carried to the Division Bench (FMA 3116of 2013). The appeal stood dismissed on 9th June, 2014 with a direction upon the Howrah DPSC to complete the selection process in terms of the said G.O. within the time mentioned therein.

'We thus, hold that the State Government did not commit any illegality in canceling the recruitment examination for the reasons as mentioned in the prder dated 21st June, 2012 and also in the light of the report of the Investigating Team as mentioned above.
As such, we do not find any reason to interfere with the impugned order. The impugned order thus stands affirmed. Interim order, if there be any, stands vacated.
The Council is thus, directed to complete the entire selection process in terms of the order passed by the Principal Secretary to the Government of West Bengal on 21st June, 2012 as early as possible and positively within a period of three months fromm the date of communication of this order, so that the selection process can be completed without any further delay.'