Dismissed¶¶15
Rashid Ali v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
Calcutta HCWPA(P)/490/2025
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Writ of mandamus refused for want of enabling provision and State obligation to act; PIL seeking decision of representation dated 15.10.2025 dismissed; appointment of private respondent not challenged, liberty reserved for separate appropriate proceeding; respondent no.12 addressee; State of West Bengal; threshold inquiry by Chief Justice Sujoy Paul with Partha Sarathi Sen, J; WPA(P) 490 of 2025; decision 21.01.2026.
What did the court decide?
At the threshold, no enabling provision for preferring such a representation, nor any obligation on the part of the State authority to decide it, could be pointed out by learned counsel for the petitioner. ¶¶12