Sonali Majumdar v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

06.05.2024 Item No.04 ML Court No.18 AJ.

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION W.P.A. 10431 of 2021 Sonali Majumdar -Vs- The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Kaustabh Chandra Das, Sk. Sahjahan Ali.

......for the petitioner.

Mr. Ranjan Saha.

......for the State.

Affidavit-of-service filed on behalf of the petitioner be kept with the record.

The petitioner is an approved Assistant Teacher of Rajapur Tangra Rampur High School (H.S.), District - 24 Parganas (North) of the subject Computer Application. The prayer of the petitioner for higher scale of pay on enhancement of his qualification in the relevant subject is long pending before the District Inspector of Schools (S.E.), District24 Parganas (North), the respondent no. 3 herein. The petitioner is praying immediate disposal of the said prayer.

Mr. Das, learned advocate for the petitioner submits that in view of different judgments of this court, the right of the petitioner to get such higher scale of pay stands crystallized. The judgments of this Court on this subject since are needed to be considered to decide the entitlement of the petitioner to get the higher scale of pay as prayed for, the petitioner is granted liberty to file a comprehensive representation before the respondent no. 3 and the said respondent, within eight weeks from the date of filing of such

representation shall dispose it of, in accordance with law, if necessary, after giving the petitioner or his representative an opportunity of hearing.

The petitioner is obliged to place all relevant judgments on the subject before the said respondent at the time of hearing of the said representation.

W.P.A. 10431 of 2021 is thus disposed of with the above terms without any order as to costs.

Since no affidavit has been invited, the allegations made in the writ petition are deemed to have denied by the respondents.

Parties to act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties subject to compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Biswajit Basu, J.)