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2025 Supreme(Cal) 821

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
ANANYA BANDYOPADHYAY
Soumitra Paul – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. Debojyoti Ghosh, Mr. Sizan Nandi
For the Respondents: Mr. Ranjan Kumar Sinha, Ms. Smita Das De

Table of Content
1. financial discrimination due to retrospective pay adjustments. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. arguments on natural justice and legitimate expectation. (Para 7 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 14)
3. requests for restoration of increments and proper pay fixation. (Para 19 , 21)
4. petitioner's legal framework and grievances against the respondents. (Para 20 , 22 , 23)
5. court's direction for compliance with statutory provisions. (Para 44 , 45)

JUDGMENT :

ANANYA BANDYOPADHYAY, J.

1. The petitioners, who are presently discharging duties in the posts of Constable and Head Constable under the Railway Protection Force (RPF), Metro Railway, Kolkata, function under the supervisory jurisdiction of the Inspector General-cum-Chief Security Commissioner, RPF, Eastern Railway. The petitioners assert that they have been subjected to a continuous financial disadvantage owing to arbitrary and retrospective interpretation of pay fixation norms by the respondent Railway authorities.

2. It had been the emphatic grievance of the petitioners, upon their initial appointment, they were extended the benefit of two advance increments in accordance with the recommendations of the 4th Central Pay Commission (CPC). These

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