India, April 3 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the 25,000 teacher recruitments carried out in 2016 by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), in connection with the ongoing investigation into the teacher recruitment scam.

In a judgment passed by a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, the top court held the entire selection process to be "vitiated" and "tainted".

"In our opinion, the entire selection process is vitiated and tainted...Manipulations and fraud have vitiated it beyond repair as the legitimacy and credibility of selection is denuded," it said.

The court was dealing with a bunch of appeals filed by the West Bengal government, the WBSSC and the affected candidates, challenging an Ap...