The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday overturned a 2023 order that had cancelled the appointment of about 32,000 primary school teachers in West Bengal in connection with an alleged cash-for-jobs recruitment scam, Live Law reported.

A division bench of Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetobroto Kumar Mitra set aside the order passed by Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay.

Gangopadhyay is now a Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Tamluk constituency in the Trinamool Congress-ruled state.

The controversy erupted in 2014 after 42,500 primary school teachers were recruited based on the Teachers’ Eligibility Test conducted by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education.

Several candidates had later filed a petition in the High Court alleging irregularities in the recruitment process involvin

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