Reba Dhar And ANR v. The Zonal Manager, State Bank Of India And ANR

Form J(2) Sl.No.15 Sudipta In the High Court at Calcutta In the Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side

Present:

The Hon'ble Justice Aniruddha Roy WPA 306 OF 2026 Reba Dhar & Anr.

Vs.

The Zonal Manager, State Bank of India & Anr. For the petitioners : Mr. Anirban Banerjee, Adv. Mr. B. Mitra, Adv.

Heard on : May 13, 2026 Judgment on : May 13, 2026 [In Court] Aniruddha Roy, J. :

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

2. Mr.

Anirban Banerjee, learned Advocate, appears for the petitioners.

3. None appears for the respondents.

4. Referring to the representation dated October 8, 2025 at page 46 to the writ petition, Mr. Banerjee submits that, if a direction is passed upon the respondent authority to consider the representation, for the time being that will suffice.

5. Accordingly, the respondent no.1 after issuing a prior notice of hearing of at least seven days to the petitioners and after granting them an opportunity of hearing shall consider the said representation dated October 8, 2025 in accordance with law by passing a reasoned order but positively within six weeks from the date of communication of this order.

6. It is made clear that this Court has not gone into the merits of this writ petition. The petitioners shall be at liberty to take all points before the respondent no.1 but the same shall not travel beyond the scope of the representation dated October 8, 2025. The parties shall be at liberty to refer to the instant writ petition with all its annexures during the hearing.

7. The reasoned order then shall be communicated to the petitioners positively within a period of two weeks from the date of the said reasoned order to be passed.

8. In the event, the reasoned order goes in favour of the petitioners, all consequential steps shall be taken by the respondent-bank in accordance with law but positively within three months from the date of the said reasoned order to be passed.

9. It is made clear that, this order shall not create any right or equity in favour of the petitioners if the petitioners are found not entitled to receive any relief in accordance with law. 10.

Since affidavits are not called for, the allegations made in the writ petition are deemed not to have been admitted by the respondents.

11.

With the above observations and directions, this writ petition WPA 306 of 2026 stands disposed of without any order as to costs.

12.

Parties shall act on the basis of the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Aniruddha Roy, J.)