Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.

The instant writ application has been preferred challenging, inter alia, a memorandum dated 1st August, 2013 issued by the respondent no.3 by which the petitioner’s claim for drawal of full House Rent Allowance (hereinafter referred to as HRA) was refused relying upon para 11 of the Finance Department memorandum no.1691-F dated 23rd February, 2009.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts are that the petitioner was initially appointed to the post of Lecturer at Vidyasagar College for Women, Kolkata (hereinafter referred to as the said college) on 1st December, 1999. Subsequent thereto, she was placed in the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography of the said college. The pay of the petitioner was fixed from time to time and up to July, 2006, the petitioner was receiving HRA amounting to Rs.1448/-per month. The petitioner got married with Dr. Anindya Datta on 30th June, 2006, who was employed at Netaji Nagar College, Kolkata. After marriage the petitioner continued to draw Rs.1448/- as HRA and her husband drew an amount of Rs.786/- towards HRA and the total HRA drawn by both was of Rs.2234/-. The petitioner stopped drawing HRA