Priyanti Biswas v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.
November 25, 2025
(56) ARDR WPA 24490 of 2025 Dr. Priyanti Biswas Vs.
The State of West Bengal & ors.
Adv. Santi Ranjan Das, Adv. Sayantan Rakshit, Adv. Subhasri Chatterjee, ...for the petitioner.
Adv. Koushik Chatterjee (through VC) ...for the respondent no.2.
Adv. Subhajit Chowdhury, ....for the State.
Affidavit of service filed by the petitioner is taken on record.
The private respondent is not represented despite service.
Report submitted by the State is also taken on record.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner completed MBBS course from Murshidabad College and Hospital, Berhampore upon being admitted therein under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe category. All of a sudden, her stipend for her house staff resident doctor was suspended on the basis of news forecast in the media that she did not belong to the scheduled caste. Her caste certificate was cancelled by the Sub-Divisional Officer, Barasat who directed that a formal complaint be lodged with the Habra Police Station for further investigation and proceeding be drawn up under
the relevant provision of the Indian Penal Code. The said order was carried in appeal by the petitioner. The appeal is still pending. FIR has been drawn up against the petitioner pursuant to the direction of the Sub-Divisional Officer and investigation is in progress. The petitioner seeks quashing of the said FIR.
It appears from the report submitted by the State and is also submitted by the learned counsel for the State that during investigation, it was found that all the documents produced by the petitioner were forged and the petitioner does not possess any valid document/proof of her residential status from where her caste certificate was allegedly issued.
Upon consideration of the submission made on behalf of the parties and report submitted by the State, this Court is of the view that since investigation has been initiated in compliance with the direction of the SubDivisional Officer, the same should be allowed to continue in order to unearth the truth. The police authority is directed to continue the investigation in a fair, impartial and unbiased manner and take the same to its logical conclusion in accordance with law.
With the aforesaid observation and direction, the writ petition is disposed of.
There shall however, be no order as to costs.
Since no affidavit is invited, the allegations contained in the petition are deemed not to have been admitted. Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.
(Suvra Ghosh, J.)