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2026 Supreme(Cal) 580

CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Madhuresh Prasad, Prasenjit Biswas, JJ
Smt. Alochana Pan – Appellant
Versus
The State of West Bengal – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Dr. Debabrata Karan, Ms. Sabita Khuntia (Bhuniya), Mr. Krishnapada Santra, Ms. Arpita Saha, Mr. Souvik Naiya
For the Respondents: Mr. Tapan Kumar Mukherjee, ld. AGP, Ms. Sangeeta Roy

Table of Content
1. petitioner challenges denial of pension benefits. (Para 1 , 2)
2. long litigation led to regularization of service. (Para 3 , 4 , 5)
3. count eligibility for pension based on service. (Para 6 , 7 , 8)
4. criteria for regularization articulated by tribunal. (Para 9 , 10 , 11)
5. government's own memos support petitioners' claims. (Para 12 , 13)
6. arguments against service qualifications found untenable. (Para 14 , 15 , 16)
7. precedent case affirmed importance of counting temporary time. (Para 17 , 18 , 19)
8. period from 1998 to be considered for pension eligibility. (Para 20)
9. directives issued for pension payment to petitioner. (Para 21 , 22 , 23)

JUDGMENT :

Madhuresh Prasad, J.

1. The husband of the petitioner No. 1 was the applicant before the West Bengal State Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the Tribunal in short) in O.A No.375 of 2017 and thereafter the writ petitioner before this Court. He has since been substituted by the present writ petitioners. We will refer to the original applicant/ writ petitioner as the petitioner, hereafter. The petitioner filed the Original Application with a prayer for setting aside an order dated 22.04.2016, issued

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