Form No.J(2)

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present :

The Hon’ble Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury WPA 7057 of 2020 Surajit Panigrahi versus Union of India & Ors.

For the petitioner : Mr. Sakya Maity For the respondent nos. : Mr. Nandalal Singhania

1 & 4. Mr. Anirban Mitra For the respondent nos. : Mr. Sukanta Chakraborty

2, 3 & 5. Ms. Amrita Pandey Heard on : 02.08.2025 & 08.08.2025.

Judgment on : 24.11.2025 Raja Basu Chowdhury, J:

1. Challenging the disciplinary proceeding including the impugned resolutions and orders passed by the disciplinary authority whereby, a punishment in the form of major penalty of dismissal from service having been affected on the petitioner with effect from

16th October, 2017, the instant writ petition has been filed.

2. It is the petitioner’s case that the petitioner while working in the office of the Controller Auditor General of India, in response to an advertisement of Bose Institute, an autonomous institute, Department of Science and Technology, under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, having its office at 93/1, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata – 700009, had applied for the post of