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2024 Supreme(Cal) 988

TAPABRATA CHAKRABORTY, PARTHA SARATHI CHATTERJEE
Rajib Brahma – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Parties : Mr. Jayanta Kumar Mitra, Sr. Adv., Mr. Subir Sanyal, Mr. Vishak Bhattacharyay, Ms. Ruchira Chatterjee, Mr. Sagnik Roy Chowdhury, Mr. Sourojit Mukherjee, Ms. Biyanka Bhattacharya. Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Adv., Mr. Firdous Samim, Ms. Gopa Biswas, Ms. Sampriti Saha, Mr. Dibyendu Chatterjee, Mr. Siddhartha Roy, Mr. Soubhik Dere, Mr. Somesh Ghosh, Mr. Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya, Mr. Babhru Bahan Bera. Mr. Nilankar Banerjee, Mr. Sanjib Das, Sk. Abul Hasan, Ms. Sumita Sarkar, Mr. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rahul Kumar Singh, Ms. Rajlakshmi Ghatak, Mr. Biswaroop Bhattacharya, Mr. Golam Mohiuddin, Ms. Puja Mondal, Mr. Anindya Bose, Mr. K.M. Hossain, Mr. Biswarup Bhattacharya, Mr. Shounak Ghosh, Mr. Skahawat Khandakar, Mr. Swati Jha, Mr. Pritam Majumdar, Mr. Rahul Deb Goenka, Mr. Mainak SinghaBarma, Ms. Satabdi Das, Mr. Suman Sankar Chatterjee, Mr. Santanu Maji, Mr. Subhayu Das, Ms. Shila Chatterjee, Mr. Sudipta Dasgupta, Mr. Arkadeb Biswas, Mr. Saikat Sutradhar, Mr. Ali Ahsan Alamgir, Mr. Rabia Khatoon, Ms. Soma Mal, Ms. Juel Rana, Mr. Ashis Kumar Chowdhury, Mr. Rajib Ghosh, Mr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Mr. Avik Pramanick. Md. Aasif Iqbal, Mr. Ranojoy Chatterjee, Mr. Tamal Singha Roy, Md. Abdur Rakib, Mr. Subhrangsu Panda, Ms. Ina Bhattacharyya, Ms. Mithu Singha Mahapatra. Mr. Supriyo Chattopadhyay, Ld. A.G.P., Ms. Iti Dutta, Dr. Sutanu Kumar Patra, Ms. Supriya Dubey, Mr. Bhaskar Prasad Vaisya, ld. A.G.P., Mr. Jaydip Banerjee. Mr. Arindam Chattopadhyay, Ms. Lipika Chatterjee, Mr. Suman Dey, Mr. Arindam Chatopadhyay, Mr. Joydip Banerjee, Ms. Jhuma Chakraborty, Mr. Arindam Banerjee, Mr. Pranit Bag, Mr. Raja Baliyal, Mr. Rajarshi Ganguly, Mr. Sandip Kumar De, Mr. Avijit Sarkar, Mr. Danur Dutta, Mr. Rajat Dutta, Mr. Jahar Dutta, Mr. Bipin Ghosh, Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharyya, Mr. Tarun Kumar Das, Mr. Sauvik De Re, Mr. Saunak Ghosh, Mr. Sakhawat Kandakar, Mr. Sougata Mitra, Mr. Nikhil Kr. Gupta, Mr. Jane Modak, Mr. Kumar Jyoti Tewari, Ms. Asha G. Gutgutia.

JUDGMENT :

(Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.)

1. In the dispensation of justice, Courts are prevented from innovating at pleasure. Neither can they don the helmet of a ‘knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness’. At all times, Courts are expected to draw ‘inspiration from consecrated principles.’ [See Benjamin Cardozo, ‘The Nature of Judicial Process’]. Bearing such principle in mind, this Court cannot help but observe that there may arise certain situations which require untangling of a complicated mesh of competing rights; where the Court may be required to innovate, not at pleasure but within the realm of perennial common law, principles of equity and good conscience, so as to arrive at an equilibrium of rights i.e., find the best possible solution. Today, this Court finds itself in the midst of one of such situations. The selection of more than 14,000 candidates, is under challenge in the present proceedings. As a natural consequence thereof, their right to livelihood and right to freedom of choosing a profession of their choice, hang in the balance. At the same time, candidates who have assailed the present selection process, are vying for an

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