Soham Roy Choudhury and Ors. v. the State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
TET-failed candidates of the 2016 West Bengal primary teacher recruitment granted six additional marks by this Court and appointed September 2022; granted notional service from February 2017, notional increments, recalculated length of service, revised salary slip/pay scale and prospective increments; arrears from September 2022 payable within eight weeks; parity drawn with similarly circumstanced appointees of 2017 and with coordinate Bench order in Animesh Karmakar (WPA 27622/2023, 11.07.2024); background order WPA 5505/2022 (Soham Roy Choudhury, 05.09.2022); respondents include State of West Bengal and WBBPE.
What did the court decide?
Notional service reckoned from February 2017 with notional increments and recalculated length of service; no actual financial benefit before the actual date of appointment; increments given to February-2017 joiners up to September 2022 made available prospectively from joining; salary slip and pay scale revised; all arrears from September 2022 till date payable within eight weeks of communication of the order.