High Court (HC) has stayed results of government primary school teacher recruitment tests in four districts -- Natore, Lalmanirhat, Nilphamari and Faridpur -- for six months on charge of rule violations.

The court also issued separate rules asking the government authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why the recruitment test results of the districts should not be declared illegal.

The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Md Mahmud Hasan Talukder came up with the order and rules in the last two days following four separate writ petitions challenging the test results published recently, filed by several examines who could not pass the viva voce.

The HC bench earlier stayed results of government primary school teacher recruitment tests in more than 20 districts on similar grounds, Deputy Attorney General Bipul Bagmar told The Daily Star.

Advocate Niaz Muhammad Mahboob, the lawyer for the petitioners of Natore, told The Daily Star that as per section 7 of the primary teacher recruitment rules 2013, 60 percent of such teachers will be appointed from female candidates, 20 percent from “posshya” (dependent) quota and 20 percent from male candidates. But the conditions were not followed, the lawyer said.

Following another writ petition, the HC on January 19 stayed the results of the recruitment tests in 14 districts for six months on charge of violations of the relevant rules.

The 14 districts are: Patuakhali, Madaripur, Sirajganj, Naogaon, Chapainawabganj, Habiganj, Mymensingh, Netrakona, Noakhali, Jashore, Satkhira, Tangail, Barguna and Thakurgaon.