{"id":41321,"date":"2018-09-06T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41321"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:23:55","slug":"punjab-to-revoke-teachers-suspension-withdraw-firs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/punjab-to-revoke-teachers-suspension-withdraw-firs\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab to revoke teachers\u2019 suspension, withdraw FIRs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalandhar<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Education Minister OP Soni on Wednesday announced the state government would reinstate teachers suspended over the past two years and FIRs lodged against them during that period would be withdrawn. Sources said the government was likely to withdraw FIRs against 7,000-8,000 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a function to award 51 teachers, Soni said, \u201cWe will reinstate all teachers suspended in the past two years. FIRs against them will also be withdrawn. The Education Secretary has been instructed in that regard.\u201d<br \/>\nMost of the FIRs are against members of the Sanjha Adhyapak Morcha (SAM), an umbrella organisation of 26 unions representing over one lakh teachers in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>These were lodged against 500 teachers during an agitation at Mohali on March 6 this year while 8,000 others were booked (20 by name) for protests in Ludhiana on March 25, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Director General School Eduaction (DGSE) Prashant Kumar Goyal clarified that FIRs related to protests alone would be cancelled and not against those facing personal or criminal charges. He said, \u201cThe department hasn\u2019t yet made any estimate on the numbers of FIRs and suspensions. The process in this regard will be set in motion soon. The quashing of FIRs will be done as per the due procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior advocate PPS Ahluwalia said the government could not cancel FIRs in criminal cases but those related to protests could be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jalandhar Punjab Education Minister OP Soni on Wednesday announced the state government would reinstate teachers suspended over the past two years and FIRs lodged against them during that period would be withdrawn. Sources said the government was likely to withdraw FIRs against 7,000-8,000 teachers. Speaking at a function to award 51 teachers, Soni said, \u201cWe [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41323,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41321\/revisions\/41323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}