HC Questions SSC's Role in Defending 'Tainted' Candidates

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KOLKATA: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday questioned whether the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) can defend candidates who were labelled as "tainted" by the Supreme Court in connection with the multi-crore recruitment scam.

A division bench comprising Justices Soumen Sen and Smita Das De raised the query during the hearing of an appeal against a single bench order that had barred such candidates from participating in the fresh recruitment process. Such decision, the single bench had observed, was in line with the Supreme Court judgment.