India, July 10 -- A division bench of the Calcutta high court on Thursday upheld the July 7 order of a single bench to bar identifiable tainted recruits from the 2016 panel - whose appointments were cancelled by the Supreme Court in April in the bribe-for-job case - from appearing for the fresh selection test for Bengal government school teachers, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

The West Bengal government and WBSSC filed a petition before the division bench of justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De on Tuesday after a single bench of justice Saugata Bhattacharyya on Monday ordered WBSSC to bar identifiable tainted recruits from the 2016 panel.

The Supreme Court on April 3 cancelled the appointment of 25,752 school teachers and non-t...