Kolkata, Sept. 7 -- Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya on Sunday criticised the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government over the 2016 West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment case, alleging that the teacher selection process was "vitiated by systematic fraud" and jobs were "openly sold in the market".

He also said that the School Service Commission is trying to protect some of their favourites by not giving the "tainted candidates" names.

Speaking to ANI after the SC's judgment in the case, Advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya said, "2016 SSC exam, which was probably the first attempt on behalf of the TMC government coming back to power, to hold the teacher's selection process was vitiated by systematic ...