Form No. J(2)

In the High Court at Calcutta

Civil Appellate Jurisdiction

Appellate Side

Present: The Hon’be Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya

And

The Hon’ble Justice Uday Kumar

W.B.L.R.T. 14 of 2025

Smt. Minati Goswamiand another

Vs.

The State of West Bengal and others

For the petitioners : Mr. Shyama Prasad Purkait

Ms. Moumita Mandal

For the State : Mr. Sk. Md. Galib

Ms. Priyamvada Singh

For the respondent nos.5 & 14 : Mr. Manoranjan Jana

Mr. Radhasyam Maiti

Heard on : 19.08.2025 Judgment on : 19.08.2025

Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.:-

1. After the hearing is concluded and the court is about to pass

judgment, learned counsel for the private respondents, to whom it was made abundantly clear that the writ petition is going to be allowed, seeks to raise an objection to this court taking up the matter on the purported ground that a relative of one of us (Bhattacharyya, J.) had appeared at one stage in a different

matter between the same parties.

2. However, we strongly deprecate such unsportsmanlike and unfair attitude of the learned Advocate for the private respondents, which should be beneath the dignity of any counsel to adopt.

3. We say so because after having come to know clearly that the court was going