A Bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi while holding the recruitment invalid, ordered the 24,000 candidates to return the salaries they received after being "illegally" recruited.
A bench led by Justice Joymalya Bagchi posed the question after noting the delay on part of the Chief Secretary of the State in granting sanction to prosecute the public servants booked in the school jobs for cash scam.
The bench has granted time till Tuesday to the Chief Secretary to file a report spelling out the time frame within which he will be deciding on the grant of sanction to prosecute the public servants.