TET candidates shown as failed after OBC certificates were voided move Calcutta High Court

Candidates who say they passed West Bengal's Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) but were shown as having failed in the 2025 primary teacher recruitment have taken their case to the Calcutta High Court. Justice Arjun Ray Mukherjee on Saturday allowed them to file the case urgently, and it will be heard on Monday, 2 November, Indiahood reported.

The petitioners, led by Mizanur Rahman Siddiqui, say they were marked as failing after the OBC-A and OBC-B certificates they had relied on were cancelled under the state's new reservation rules, which moved them into the general category with a higher pass mark. They are asking for the pass mark to be set at 82 for reserved-category candidates and 89 for others. The court has not passed any order yet.

The dispute goes back to a Calcutta High Court division bench ruling this year that the state's May-June 2025 notifications adding new classes to the OBC list were issued without legal authority, and that certificates issued under them were "void ab initio". That bench, of Justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Anuj Singh, said candidates who had claimed OBC status on that basis must be treated as general category, LiveLaw reported. The Supreme Court issued notice to the state on 1 October on the wider OBC question, and has said the final outcome will depend on its decision.