Protesting Bengal teachers allow gheraoed SSC chairman to leave office after 40 hours

Mr. Majumdar to appear before Calcutta High Court for SSC recruitment test hearing, sit-in protest continues.

A section of protesting jobless teachers, who have laid siege to the state School Service Commission (SSC) headquarters here, on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) morning allowed its chairman Siddhartha Majumdar to leave his office after 40 hours.

Mr. Majumdar is scheduled to appear before the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) in connection with a hearing related to the presentation of OMR sheets of the 2016 SSC recruitment test.

The agitators, who launched the demonstration at 2 p.m. on April 21, however, said their sit-in will continue.

Speaking to PTI, Mr. Majumdar said he has returned home and will take rest for some time before attending the court proceedings as per schedule.

One of the protesters belonging to the Deserving Teachers Forum said Mr. Majumdar was allowed to leave both because he had to be physically present at the court and also to give him some reprieve from confinement on health grounds.

"Our sit-in will continue as usual... Majumdar will again be gheraoed once he returns to his office after the court proceedings," he said.

The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (April 23, 2025) will hear a contempt petition against the West Bengal Department of School Education, claiming that it has not uploaded OMR sheets of 26,000 teaching and non-teaching staffers who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment.