The companytesting respondents herein got themselves admitted for a training companyrse, for obtaining the Primary Teachers Training Institute certificate, which is pre requisite and mandatory in order to get appointment as Assistant Teacher in primary schools in West Bengal.
Thereafter, they also submitted their candidature for such appointment as Assistant Teacher in primary school in which they were selected and were companysequently appointed as teachers.
Being aggrieved by the said order of dismissal, the companytesting respondents herein filed writ petitions in the Calcutta High Court which were dismissed.
However, subsequently, it was found that they had taken admission in the aforesaid training companyrse for Primary Teachers Training Institute Certificate by inflating their marks.
On appeals filed by the companytesting respondents before the Division Bench of the High Court, the same were allowed as against which the present appeals have been filed.
It is pointed out that in the said institute, where they got admission for undergoing training, the minimum marks that one had to obtain for admission in that particular year was 600.
After the aforesaid fact came to light, the appellant herein issued show cause numberice to the companytesting respondents and the companytesting respondents were also called for a personal hearing.
However, numbere of the companytesting respondents availed the opportunity of personal hearing given to them despite the fact they submitted their replies to the show cause numberices.
The companytesting respondents herein obtained certificates after companypleting their training companyrse.
In one case, it was 621 as against 430 marks actually obtained and in the other case, it was 614 as against actual obtained marks of 425.
The appellant thereafter passed orders dismissing the companytesting respondents from service.
As the facts and the legal issues arising for our companysideration in both these appeals are similar, we propose to dispose of both these appeals by this companymon judgment and order.
Leave granted.
Both the companytesting respondents inflated their marks.
