India, June 20 -- Since 2018, the erstwhile Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal had refused to entertain requests from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for sanction to prosecute public servants and limited approvals for investigations by the agency to a case-by-case basis.

Now, within a month of assuming office, the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has cleared all such pending sanction requests, clearing the way for long-delayed trials in high profile cases such as those relating to the allegedly botched recruitment of teachers and municipality workers, people familiar with the matter said.

The government also restored the general consent for prosecution -- revoked by the then TMC regime in 2018 -- las...