Beneficiary Of Fraud Can't Be Supported By Public Money: Calcutta HC Restrains State From Paying Stipend To Staff Whose Jobs Were Cancelled By SC

In a significant order, the Calcutta High Court has restrained the West Bengal government from paying any further stipend to the school teaching and non-teaching staff whose appointments were previously cancelled by the Supreme Court. The appointments were invalidated due to a large-scale recruitment scam. Despite the cancellation, the state government had decided to pay a monthly stipend to these individuals. However, the High Court intervened, stating that once the appointments themselves have been declared illegal and void by the highest court of the land, there can be no legal basis for paying any form of salary or stipend from the public exchequer. This order prevents the state from spending public funds on individuals whose appointments were found to be fraudulent, upholding the sanctity of the Supreme Court's judgment.