Civic volunteer recruitment can’t be a means to confer political patronage, SC tells West Bengal | India News – Times of India
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put under scrutiny recruitment of civic volunteers under West Bengal’s ‘Ratirer Sathi’ scheme, floated after the RG Kar hospital rape-murder incident in which an earlier similarly engaged volunteer is the prime accused, and said such hirings cannot be a device to confer political patronage.“Recruitment of civic volunteers cannot be a nice process to confer political patronage on unverified persons,” said a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.It sought details of recruitment process from the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC govt in three weeks while barring their deployment in hospitals and schools till further orders.Senior advocate Karuna Nundy, appearing for a doctors’ association in Kolkata, requested the benc...