India, April 10 -- A fresh wave of unrest has erupted in West Bengal as a section of teachers who lost their jobs following a Supreme Court judgment have launched a relay hunger strike, protesting not only their termination but also alleged police brutality during demonstrations. The protest began Thursday outside the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) office in Salt Lake, where teachers have also staged an overnight sit-in at the commission's Acharya Sadan building.

These teachers were among the 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff whose appointments made through a 2016 SSC recruitment drive were annulled after the Supreme Court on April 3 upheld a Calcutta High Court verdict, which described the entire recruitment process as...