KOLKATA, April 5 -- Days after the Supreme Court Division Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar ruled that 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff recruited in West Bengal through a process riddled with corruption, manipulation, and fraud stand sacked, many job-losers, lawyers and politicians are convinced that it was due to a plan hatched by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her advisers to save her Trinamool Congress members who allegedly collected money from the job applicants.

On Thursday, faced with the impossible task of detecting those who had paid money allegedly to Trinamool Congress cadres doubling as money collectors and those who had got the jobs on merit, the Supreme Court opted to cancel th...