Debabrata Das v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

2nd Feb., 2026 In the High Court at Calcutta Item no.A-33 Court No. 18 pg.

Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side WPA 18858 of 2022 Debabrata Das VS.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Sudip Ghosh Chowdhury Ms. Shreyeta Mitra Ms. Deboline Chakraborty ... For the petitioner Mr. Kanak Kiran Bandyopadhyay ... For the WBCSSC Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharyya Mr. Bibek Dutta Mr. Manas Bhattacharyya ... For the WBBSE 1.

Affidavit of service filed in Court today is taken on record.

2.

The petitioner's application seeking transfer stood rejected by the head of the institution on 11th September, 2021 on the ground that the petitioner was ineligible for transfer on account of not being within the ten percent limit of the total teachers' strength eligible for transfer.

3.

The petitioner presses his application for transfer. It appears that more than four years have elapsed from the date the application of the petitioner seeking transfer stood disallowed by the head of the institution. There may have been

change in the staff strength of the school in the meantime.

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 the 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 law.

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.

All parties shall act on the basis of a server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

12.

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