Satya Saran Mandal And ORS. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

ss 22.09.2023 MAT 1875 of 2022 With CAN 1 of 2022 With CAN 2 of 2022 Satya Saran Mandal & Ors.

Vs.

State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. L.M. Basu ... ... for the appellants Mr. Suman Dey ... ... for the State Mr. Ratul Biswas Mr. Kaushik Chowdhury ... ... for the Board

1. Sufficient cause being shown for not being able to file the memorandum of appeal within the period of limitation.

2. The delay of 13 days in filing the memorandum of appeal is condoned.

3. Accordingly, the application for condonation of delay is allowed and disposed of.

4. In view of the fact that the issue involved in this appeal has already been decided, we dispose of this appeal on the basis of the order passed by a coordinate Bench which extends the benefit to all persons similarly placed.

5. The appeal and the connected application stand disposed of on the basis of the judgement passed by the co-ordinate Bench dated 13th April, 2023 in MAT 1594 of 2018.

6.

There will be no order as to costs.

7.

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

(Prasenjit Biswas, J.) (Soumen Sen, J.)