Niranjan Sahoo @ Niranjan Sahoo & Anr vs State Of West Bengal & Ors on 2 September, 2022
Now let me come to the case of Manindra Nath Sinha & Ors. Vs. State
of West Bengal & Ors. decided by a division bench of our court and
reported in (2006) 4 CHN 513. Its facts are most important. The
petitioners claimed to be organizer teachers of the school from 16th
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January, 1986. The Board recognized the school as a IV class junior
High School on 1st May, 1994 for 3 years. It was further extended for 3
years. The petitioners prayed for approval of their appointment from 1st
May, 1994. Earlier writ applications were preferred where a direction
was made upon the District Inspector of Schools to come to a decision
whether the writ petitioners could be recognized as organizing staff. His
decision was that the school was "a newly setup one where there was no
scope of involvement of the organizing staff". That the writ petitioners
were organizing staff, was disbelieved. Considering the school to be a
newly setup school, staff were to be recruited following the said Act of
1997. The division bench held: