Kolkata/IBNS, July 8 -- The Calcutta High Court on Monday ruled candidates who have been specified as "tainted" in the School Service Commission (SSC) scam won't be allowed to apply for fresh recruitments, media reports said.

The bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya has directed the SSC to cancel all applications by the tainted candidates, whose list was earlier provided by the commission to the Supreme Court.

Senior advocate and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee argued the "tainted candidates" were already penalised by the annulment of their jobs and a fine.

Advocate General Kishore Datta, who was representing the State, argued that the Supreme Court had never mentioned in its ruling that the "tainted candidates" would be ...