A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday, December 3, set aside a single bench order that annulled appointments of 32,000 primary school teachers in West Bengal.

These teachers were recruited in 2016 through the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) panel of 2014 by the West Bengal Board of Primary Education.

The bench, comprising justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Reetabrata Kumar Mitra, said it is not inclined to uphold the single bench order as irregularities have not been proven in all the recruitments.

The court maintained that the termination of employment after nine years would have a huge impact on the primary teachers and their families.

It said the CBI, which was directed to investigate the matter by the high court, had initially identified 264 appointments in whic

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