The Calcutta High Court has set aside a single bench order which cancelled the appointment of around 32000 primary teachers in the cash-for-jobs TET-Recruitment scam case.

A division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetobroto Kumar Mitra passed the order, upholding a 2023 decision by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, presently a BJP Lok Sabha member.

"There must have been a possibility of systemic malice, assessment of data doesn't point to the same… A group of unsuccessful candidates cannot be allowed to damage the entire system. A job taken away after 9 years of service would cause insurmountable difficulty," the bench held.

The single judge had cancelled the appointments because no aptitude test had been conducted for the candidates, an outside agency had been contracted to c

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