New Delhi, July 14 -- The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the claims of nearly 350 teaching and non-teaching staff working in madrasahs in West Bengal for regularisation and payment of salary arrears, finding their recruitment to be in violation of state notifications. A bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih passed the order while deciding on a batch of 49 petitions filed by the staff who were aggrieved by the findings of a statutory committee under the West Bengal Madrasah Service Commission Act (MSC Act), 2008, which dismissed their claims for regularisation. Rather than examining the 350 cases individually, the court examined 13 individual cases selected by the lawyers appearing for the petitioners as the ones most deserving for recruitment. Upon examination, the bench held, "Since none of these 13 petitioners has set up any case for interference, we are not inclined to look into the claim of any of the other petitioners." Dismissing the entire batch of 350 people, the order said, "The appointments...are a blot on the system; they must, therefore, be erased and not protected." It also lifted the restraint on the state from dislodging these petitioners from service and directing payment of salary....