India, June 3 -- The Calcutta high court on Tuesday allowed separate petitions challenging the format of a fresh selection test for the Bengal government-appointed school teachers from the 2016 panel and chief minister Mamata Banerjee's decision to offer monthly stipend to the Group-C and D staff inducted that year, lawyers aware of the development said.

The appointments of all these people were cancelled by the Supreme Court on April 3 in the bribe-for-job case.

Both petitions were filed by people who appeared for the selection tests in 2016 but did not get jobs. They have claimed to be victims of the alleged bribe-for-job in the education department that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) have b...