Krishna Mahata v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
School-service transfer appeal (MAT 290 of 2025; CAN 1 of 2025; decided 14.5.2025; bench: Soumen Sen, J. and Smita Das De, J.). Keywords: transfer to first preference school; second preference school; West Bengal Central School Service Commission; W.B.C.S.C.; Chairman; District Inspector of Schools; remittance of records; disciplinary proceeding pending; Aghor Baskey; Sanjib Kumar Mohanty; Bhajan Kumar Kundu; Krishna Mahata; reasonable opportunity of hearing; reasoned order; impugned order set aside; appeal disposed of. No statutes or precedents cited; court name not printed in the text.
What did the court decide?
Appeal and applications disposed of; impugned order set aside; District Inspector of Schools concerned to remit all records pertaining to the appellant, Aghor Baskey, Sanjib Kumar Mohanty and Bhajan Kumar Kundu to the Chairman, W.B.C.S.C. within a fortnight; Chairman to consider the writ petitioner's transfer prayer to the first and second preference schools within six weeks, with opportunity of hearing if required, and dispose of the representation by a reasoned order to be communicated within a week.