India, May 14 -- After finding that FIRs were being registered and teachers arrested despite earlier court orders to the contrary, the Bombay High Court has restrained Commissioner of Education Sachindra Pratap Singh from participating in the investigation being carried out by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff in schools across Maharashtra.

"The Commissioner of Education is busy issuing directions for registration of FIRs when the SIT is exclusively constituted for this purpose. If the Commissioner himself wants to inquire and investigate as a single member SIT, we have every reason to even doubt the SIT," observed a division bench of Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Hiten Venegaonk...