India, July 7 -- The Calcutta high court on Monday ordered the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) 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 the Bengal government school teachers, lawyers who attended the hearing said.

"While hearing petitions filed by a section of the jobless teachers, Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya ordered that identifiable tainted teachers cannot sit for the test as per the direction of the Supreme Court," Firdous Shamim, one of the lawyers representing the petitioners, said.

"The court directed the WBSSC to cancel the applications filed by these people si...