Dipankar Datta, J.

1. This writ appeal, at the instance of the Headmaster, Bhotebari Sitanath High School, P.O. Bhotebari, P.S. Mekhliganj, District Cooch Behar (hereafter the said school), its Secretary and the said school itself (hereafter the appellants), registers a challenge to the judgment and order dated July 20, 2016 passed by a learned judge of this Court, whereby a writ petition [W.P. 12228(W) of 2016] presented by the respondent no.1 (hereafter the writ petitioner) was allowed.

2. Bearing in mind an objection raised by Mr. Ray, learned advocate for the writ petitioner, to the locus standi of the appellants to carry the judgment and order dated July 20, 2016 in appeal, a brief recital of the facts leading to invocation of the extraordinary writ jurisdiction of this Court by her (as discerned from the writ petition itself) would be in order.

3. Based on the recommendation of the West Bengal School Service Commission (Northern Region) (hereafter the Regional Commission), the writ petitioner was offered appointment as an assistant teacher in Social Science in the said school vide letter dated July 21, 2011 of its Secretary. She joined on July 27, 2011. Soon thereafter