CHENNAI — A few months ago, Arghya Paul was sitting pretty. From a modest upbringing as a farmer’s son, he had studied hard, climbing the ladder to the kind of job many millions of Indians covet — working for the government.
But life turned upside down for the 36-year-old teacher and about 26,000 of his peers at various public schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in April. The country’s Supreme Court upheld a local court’s decision to annul their appointments after revelations that some candidates who took tests for the teaching jobs in 2016 — the same time as Paul did — had paid bribes to have their scores raised.
