Mrityunjoy Panda vs State of West Bengal

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2023 Supreme(Cal) 180

RABINDRANATH SAMANTA
Mrityunjoy Panda – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Arunava Banerjee, Sk. Qareeb.
For the State : Mr. Swapan Kumar Datta, Sr. Adv & AGP, Mr. Tapas Kumar Dey.

JUDGMENT :

Rabindranath Samanta, J.

1. Aggrieved by the inaction on the part of the state authority to appoint him as a Library Peon on compassionate ground in a college namely Saldiha College, Bankura, the petitioner has approached this court by preferring this writ petition seeking direction upon the respondents to appoint him as a Library Peon in the college.

2. The facts giving rise to the writ petition may be summarised as under :

Smt. Sefalika Panda, the mother of the petitioner Mritunjoy Panda was a permanent Group D employee of Saldiha College. She was working as Helper-cum-Cleaner in the Girls’ Hostel of the college. As an approved staff, sefalika panda used to draw regular salary and other allowances as admissible to a permanent Group D employee.

Unfortunately, the mother of the petitioner while in service died on 21st July, 2014 leaving behind her the petitioner as her unemployed son.

After the sudden demise of his mother, the petitioner made appeal to the college authority for family pension, gratuity etc.. The college authority calculated the family pension at Rs. 4,890/-as on 21.07.2014 and death gratuity at Rs.1,15,890/-.

3. The petitioner applied for appointment on compass