Form No. J.(2)

Item No. 1 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Aniruddha Roy W.P.A. 14686 of 2025 Mithun Chakrabortty & Ors.

Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

For the petitioners : Mr.Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya, Sr. Adv.

Md. Sarwar Jahan, Adv.

Mr. Soumen Barman, Adv.

Md. Shahjahan, Adv.

Mr. Umenun Khan, Adv.

For the State : Mr. Santanu Kr. Mitra, Sr. Govt. Adv.

Mr. Subhabrata Das, Adv.

Reserved on : August 06, 2025 Judgment on : August 25, 2025 Aniruddha Roy, J.

FACTS :

1. The petitioners pursuant to the recruitment notices issued in the year 2006, 2018 and 2021, participated in the recruitment process and ultimately they were engaged for the post of District Accounts Manager (for short the said post) on contractual basis at the respective districts for the Programme Management Unit (PMU) under RCH-II which is a component of National Rural Health Mission.

2. The appointment was purely contractual against a monthly consolidated remuneration initially for a period of 11 months, as would be evident from the engagement letter Annexure P-2 at page 22 to the writ petition.

3. The contractual period of the petitioners was extended