Kolkata, June 21 -- The Calcutta high court ordered a stay till September 26 on the West Bengal government's monthly stipend for 2016-batch Group-C and D school staff, whose appointments were scrapped by the Supreme Court in April over a bribe-for-job case, according to lawyers who were present at the hearing on Friday. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had announced on April 26 monthly stipends of Rs.25,000 and Rs.20,000 for the jobless Group-C and D staff, respectively. "The order directed the state to file an affidavit in four weeks explaining why public money should be used to pay stipend to people whose appointments have been cancelled by the Supreme Court without provision for any relief," lawyer Firdous Shamim, who represented petitioners challenging the stipend, said. The order was passed by the single bench of justice Amrita Sinha. The last hearing took place on June 9, when the judge had reserved the order. The contempt petition was filed by some of the 25,752 teachers appointed in 2016 and a section of job aspirants who were not appointed allegedly because of the bribe-for-job case. On the orders of Calcutta high court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) started a probe into the appointment of non-teaching staff between 2014 and 2021, when TMC's Partha Chatterjee was education minister. Many appointees allegedly paid bribes in the range of Rs 5-15 lakh to get jobs after failing the selection tests....