Calcutta High CourtWPA/19287/2022disposed

Moumita Mondal v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

2023-02-09Hon'Ble Justice Lapita Banerji3 pages

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9.2.2023 S.D.

W.P.A. 19287 of 2022 Moumita Mondal Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Moniruzzaman ...For the petitioner Ms. Sutapa Sanayal Mr. Debrup Bhattacharjee Mr. Pradeep Kumar Tulsyan ...For the Respondent No. 2 Mr. Supriya Chattopadhyay Ms. Sayantanee Bhattacharjee ...For the Burdwan Regulated Market Committee Mr. Tapan Kumar Mukherjee Ms. Debdooti Dutta ..For the State Ms. Sanyal, learned counsel appears on behalf of the respondent no. 2/the West Bengal State Agricultural Marketing Board.

Mr. Moniruzzaman, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the petitioner's prayer for compassionate appointment has not been considered by the respondent no. 5/District Magistrate on the erroneous ground that she was not unmarried prior to the date of death

of the deceased employee of the Board. The District Magistrate also directed that the Hon'ble Court's order should be followed and the petitioner's prayer should be forwarded to the respondent no. 2/Board.

Ms. Sanyal submits that the representations dated April 17, 2018 and May 3, 2018 on behalf of the petitioner may be considered afresh by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the respondent no. 2 in accordance with the judgment reported in 2017 (4) CHN (Cal) 362 (State of West Bengal vs. Purnima Das).

After hearing the submissions of the parties this Court directs the representations to be considered by the CEO of the Board/respondent no. 2 or any person authorized by him within eight weeks from date upon giving a personal hearing to the petitioner and be disposed of by passing a reasoned order.

Let the reasoned order be communicated to the petitioner within two weeks of passing thereof. With the directions aforesaid, W.P.A. 19287 of 2022 is disposed of.

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

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all the formalities.

(Lapita Banerji, J.)