Jayanta Kumar Pahari And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

23.12.2025 (D/L 07) Ct.-17 (Susanta Samar)

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE W.P.A. 29182 of 2025 Jayanta Kumar Pahari & Anr.

-VsThe State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Devranjan Das, Mr. Gouranga Debnath, Mr. Partha Mukherjee, ...For the Petitioners.

Ms. Tapasi Samanta, .... For the State.

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

The learned advocate for the petitioners undertakes to file deficit Court Fees in course of this day.

The petitioners are State aided college teachers- category-II (SACT-II) at Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, a Government aided college.

The learned advocate for the petitioners, on August 06, 2025 has given a representation to the authorities including the Director of Public Instruction, Department of Higher Education, the respondent no.4 herein for promotion of the petitioners to the post of SACT-I teacher and for fixation of the scale of pay in terms of the Memorandum of the Higher Education Department bearing no. 2081-Edn (CS)/10M83/2019 dated December 23, 2019. The said representation forms part of the writ petition, being annexure 'P-17' at page 151.

The respondent no. 4 is directed to consider the said representation as expeditiously as

possible in accordance with law, preferably within a period six weeks from the date of communication of this order.

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

W.P.A 29182 of 2025 is disposed of with the above terms without any order as to costs.

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.)