HC stays civic police volunteers recruitment

SNS | Kolkata | 29 April, 2016: Justice Sanjib Banerjee of Calcutta High Court on Thursday stayed the recruitment process of civic police volunteers. Justice Banerjee asked the Home Department to file a detailed affidavit by 9 May regarding the procedure adopted for recruitment of such volunteers in 2013.

Petitioners from Bankura had filed a case in Calcutta High Court in April stating that there had been irregularities in the recruitment process of civic police volunteers.

The petitioners had alleged that the candidates recruited for civic police volunteers in 2013 had been selected through interview only and no written examination had been conducted. As many as 5001 candidates were selected from Bankura, among a total of 1,30,000 candidates selected from all over Bengal.

Advocate Sudipto Dasgupta, counsel for the petitioners, submitted, “The recruitment process of the civic police volunteers was not done following proper procedure. We appeal that the recruitment of the candidates be done following the proper procedure.” The state counsel also submitted that the recruitment process had been conducted through an interview process only. After hearing both the sides, Justice Banerjee observed “Prima facie it can be understood that this could have led to a big scam.”