IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT /CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

APPELLATE SIDE

P r e s e n t :

The Hon’ble Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty

And

The Hon’ble Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee

FMA 1123 of 2024

with

IA No. CAN 1 of 2025

Hafizur Rahaman

- Versus -

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

For the appellant : Mr. Chittopriya Ghosh,

Mr. Somesh Kumar Ghosh,

Mr. Sourojit Mukherjee.

For the State : Mr. Bhaskar Prasad Vaisya,

Mr. Sagnik Chatterjee.

For the W.B.B.P.E. : Mr. Ratul Biswas,

Mr. Kaushik Chowdhury.

Heard on : 09.12.2025

Judgment on : 09.12.2025

Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, J. :-

1. Challenged in this appeal is the order dated 18th July, 2024, passed in WPA

17588 of 2024, a writ petition preferred by the writ petitioner/appellant (hereinafter referred to as “the appellant”), primarily seeking a direction upon

the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (for short, “the Board”) to consider the petitioner as an OBC-A exempted category candidate in the recruitment process initiated in 2020 or 2022 for filling up the post of Assistant Teacher in primary education. However, by the said order dated

18th July, 2024, the writ petition was dismissed.

2. The facts leading to the institution of the pre