New Delhi, April 3 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Calcutta High Court order quashing the appointments of 25,000 teachers and other staff in West Bengal.
A bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar upheld the high court's decision quashing the entire selection process.
In its verdict, the bench declared the entire process of recruitment of teachers and other staff in schools in West Bengal as "tainted" and "tainted beyond reform".
The court said the entire selection process was vitiated by manipulation and fraud and cannot be rectified.
The court said that the sanctity and credibility of this process has been destroyed. In such a situation, there is no valid ground to interfere with the order of terminat...