Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) on Friday filed a caveat in the Supreme Court, requesting that the court should not pass any order without hearing the Commission if a petition is filed against the recent Calcutta High Court judgment on alleged irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers in state-run schools.

On December 3, a division bench of the Calcutta High Court — comprising Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty and Justice Ritabrata Kumar Mitra — set aside an earlier order by a single-judge bench that had cancelled the appointments of 32,000 primary teachers.

After the division bench ruling, several groups unhappy with the decision announced that they would approach the Supreme Court. Senior lawyers from both the BJP and CPI-M also publicly said they we

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