AGARTALA, July 27 (TIWN): Supreme Court has been postponed the date for hearing of 10,323 teachers' termination case to October 9 due to lack of proper documents.

As per scheduled programme, the case was produced before the registrar’s bench of the Apex Court on Monday but due to lack of all the documents the case has been postponed to October 9. The court has ordered to keep the entire documents ready by October 9 and it is expected that no interruption will occur.

The special leave petition (SLP) challenging the High court of Tripura that terminated the jobs of 10,323 school teachers was placed before the Apex court for hearing on July 27 but the lack of documents delayed the judgment.

Gopal Singh, standing counsel of Tripura in the apex court have represented the state government.

The delay in the judgement has disheartened the teachers working in different schools of the state, whose jobs were cancelled by the High Court with effect from December 31 because of faulty appointment process based on unconstitutional employment policy, on May 7.

A division bench of High Court of Tripura headed by Chief Justice Deepak Gupta directed the state government to cancel the jobs of the teachers after December, terming the jobs as illegal.

The high court had termed the policy 'unconstitutional and illegal' and had issued a 19-point guideline for a new employment policy for the state within the next two months.

Earlier on May 7, a division bench of the Tripura high court, headed by Chief Justice Deepak Gupta, terminated the jobs of 10,323 teachers, including 1,100 postgraduate, 4,617 graduate and 4,606 undergraduate teachers.

The court declared the existing employment policy of the state government, which has been followed since 1980, null and void. In the existing employment system, 30% jobs are given on the basis of need and 70% on the basis of merit and no written tests are conducted.