Shanti Garai and Ors. v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
W.P.A. 28695 of 2023, decided 18.01.2024 (Biswajit Basu, J.) — para-teachers of Secondary/Higher Secondary schools in West Bengal (Shanti Garai & Ors.) sought pay-scale parity with regular teachers and a direction to consider their pending representation before the Principal Secretary, Finance Department and Secretary, School Education. Dismissed because an identical prayer of similarly placed persons had already been rejected by the Principal Secretary, Finance Department; no costs. No statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Since an identical prayer made by similarly placed persons had already been rejected by the Principal Secretary, Finance Department, Government of West Bengal, no further direction directing consideration of the petitioners' representation was necessary; the writ petition was therefore dismissed.