Overview

• Justice Amrita Sinha’s June 20 interim order restrains the West Bengal government from disbursing monthly allowances of ₹25,000 to Group C and ₹20,000 to Group D non-teaching staff who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court abolished the 2016 WBSSC recruitment panel.
• The order pauses the West Bengal Livelihood and Special Security Interim Scheme until September 26 or further orders and requires the state to file its affidavit in four weeks.
• Petitioners, including waitlisted candidates, argued that funding individuals whose appointments were declared fraudulent by the Supreme Court would amount to unjust enrichment and undermine judicial authority.
• The Supreme Court had annulled over 25,753 teaching and non-teaching appointments in April, allowing only untainted teachers to continue until December without extending similar relief to non-teaching staff.
• The West Bengal government and WBSSC have filed review petitions in the Supreme Court seeking to overturn the annulment, while affected non-teaching employees face mounting financial distress.