IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
DEBANGSU BASAK, MD.SHABBAR RASHIDI
Mahua Mukhopadhyay – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
DEBANGSU BASAK, J.
1. Three appeals are heard analogously as the same issue as to whether the writ petitioners are entitled to Dearness Allowance (DA) as Assistant Teachers working in a DA getting school or not is involved in all the three appeals.
2. In the three appeals there are three applications for condonation of delay. The appellants are school teachers. For the ends of justice, the delay in making and filing the appeals are condoned accepting the causes shown in the applications to be sufficient. Accordingly, the applications for condonation are disposed of and the appeals are taken up for final hearing.
3. The appeals are directed against the orders passed by the learned Single Judge dismissing the writ petitions.
4. The appeals are at the behest of the writ petitioners.
5. By the impugned order learned Single Judge dismissed the writ petition on the ground that the reasoned order impugned in the writ petition contained sufficient reasons for non-approval of the prayer of the writ petitioners for DA. Learned Single Judge also did not find any procedural irregularity in the passing of the reasoned order impugned in the writ petition.
6. Learned advocate appearing for th
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