Kolkata, April 21 -- Teachers recruited through the School Service Commission (SSC) staged a 'dharna' outside the SSC office in Kolkata on Monday.

They are protesting against the Mamata Banerjee-led State Government after nearly 26,000 teachers lost their jobs in connection with the SSC recruitment case, following a Supreme Court judgment which held that the whole appointment process was "tainted."

On April 3, the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court's decision to quash the recruitment of more than 25,000 teaching and non-teaching staff by the West Bengal SSC in 2016 for state-run and aided schools.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar found that the West Bengal SSC's selection proces...