TET Candidate Misspells ‘Durga’ In Court, Calcutta High Court Finds Her To Be Unfit To Be A Teacher, Dismisses Her Plea

The Calcutta High Court has recently dismissed a challenge against the Teachers Entrance Test (“TET”) 2014, by a candidate who claimed that she was not selected after the interview, even after allegedly scoring high marks.

In dismissing the petitioner’s plea after perusing video footage of her interview, bench of Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay observed:

With such sense of spelling a person cannot be allowed to be a primary teacher. I have asked one spelling namely, ‘Durga’ [in Bengali] which also she spelt wrongly. Therefore, I think that the performance on that particular day of the petitioner was not up to the mark and we need not spend further time to see the video of the interview. I accept the result i.e. the marks given by the experts in the interview and communicated to this court as correct assessment and, therefore, the writ application is dismissed.

In further observing that the petitioner would be entitled to retain costs that had been paid to her by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education, the Court clarified that the present dismissal would not affect the petitioner’s future employment.

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (Cal) 286

Case: Amna Parveen Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Case No: WPA 320 of 2023

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