The Supreme Court today stayed the Allahabad High Court order asking the Uttar Pradesh government to prepare a revised list of 69,000 assistant teachers selected through the Assistant Teachers Recruitment Examination (ATRE) in 2019. The top court also stayed the High Court verdict setting aside the selection lists of assistant teachers issued by the state authorities in June 2020 and January 2022, which included 6,800 candidates.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra also issued notices to the state government and others including the secretary of the UP Basic Education Board on a plea filed by Ravi Kumar Saxena and 51 others. The bench said it will fix the plea for hearing in the week commencing 23rd of this month.
Earlier last month, the high court directed the state government to prepare a fresh selection list as multiple petitions had challenged the recruitment process alleging that people from reserved categories were not selected in proportion to what the law stipulates.
