Rumpa Baidya v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

12th Feb., 2026 Item no.D/L 22 Court No. 18 Pradip, A.R.(Ct.) In the High Court at Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side Case No.

WPA 7769 of 2023 In the matter of :

Rumpa Baidya .... Petitioner VS.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

....Respondents For the Petitioner:

Mr. Ujjal Ray Mr. Gourav Das ....Advocates For the WBCSSC:

Mr. Sunit Kumar Roy ....Advocate For the State:

Mr. Sanchayita De ....Advocate

1. The petitioner seeks transfer. She made an application before the Commissioner of School Education.

2. According to the prevailing transfer rules, application seeking transfer is required to be made in the prescribed format disclosing ground for the same before the head of the institution.

3. The same has not been done by the petitioner.

4. In view of the above, the instant writ petition stands disposed of with the observation that it will be open for the petitioner to make fresh offline application seeking transfer in the prescribed format disclosing ground for the same.

5. In the event such an application is made, the same shall be considered by the head of the institution in accordance with the prevailing transfer rules.

6. Steps shall be taken in the matter at the earliest but positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of the application from the petitioner.

7. If the application of the petitioner is allowed, then necessary consequential steps shall be taken without any further delay.

8. The fate of the petitioner's application shall be made known to the petitioner.

9. Suspension of the Utsashree portal will not stand in the way of the respondents to consider the application for transfer made by the petitioner.

10. The writ petition stands disposed of.

11. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance of all requisite formalities. (Amrita Sinha, J.)