Apurba Kumar Hore v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

26.02.2026 Court No.18 pg.

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE WPA 29434 of 2025 Apurba Kumar Hore -versus The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Arijit Pradhan ... For the petitioner Mr. K.J. Yusuf, AGP Mr. Parikshit Goswami ... For the State 1.

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

2.

The petitioner's prayer seeking higher scale of pay on account of enhancement of his educational qualification in terms of the judgment passed by the Hon'ble Special Bench of this Court on 7th February, 2024 in a batch of writ petitions, first of which is WPA 303 of 2023 (Utpal Kanti Karan v. State of West Bengal & Ors.) is pending consideration before the respondent authority.

3.

Without entering into the merit of the claim of the petitioner, the instant writ petition stands disposed of by directing the District Inspector of Schools (Secondary Education), Purba Burdwan to consider the prayer of the petitioner for grant of higher scale of pay in light of the judgment delivered by the Hon'ble Special Bench in the matter of Utpal Kanti Karan (supra) at the

earliest but positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order. 4.

If the prayer of the petitioner to receive higher scale of pay is accepted by the authority, then necessary consequential steps shall be taken without any further delay.

5.

The writ petition stands disposed of.

6.

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

7.

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

(Amrita Sinha, J.)