This bunch of petitions arises from the order passed by the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal on 11th July, 2006. It is a common order passed in about 538 original applications. By the impugned order all the applications were dismissed by the Tribunal.

Before we proceed further, we must note that some of the applicants, who were aggrieved by the order which is impugned in the present petitions, had filed writ petitions before this Court. Those writ petitions were decided by a Division Bench of this Court (K. J. Sengupta and Mrinal Kanti Sinha, JJ) on December 5, 2007. The Division Bench allowed some petitions while dismissing others on the issue of limitation. Both the State of West Bengal and the aggrieved petitioners approached the Supreme Court by preferring special leave petitions. The Supreme Court has dismissed those special leave petitions as it found no merit in them. Review petitions were preferred before the Supreme Court, which were also dismissed.

The question of law which has arisen before us is whether the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta could by a notification introduce certain tests for the purpose of short-listing candidates for recruitment to the Calc