56 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

14-01-2026 Court No.18 Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction pg.

Appellate Side WPA No.26917 of 2025 Prabir Midya & Anr.

-vs-

State of West Bengal & Ors.

With CAN 6 of 2025 CAN 18 of 2025 CAN 19 of 2025 CAN 20 of 2026 Mr. Sudipta Dasgupta Mr. Bikram Banerjee Mr. Baibhav Roy … For the Petitioners Mr. Jahar Lal De, AGP Mr. Sirsanya Bandopadhyay, Sr. SC Mr. Rudranil De … For the State Mr. Biswaroop Bhattacharya Mr. Rahul Kumar Singh … For the WBCSSC Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharya Mr. Bibek Dutta … For the WBBSE Mr. Kallol Basu Mr. Atreya Chakraborty … For the added respondents (CAN 1/2025)

Mr. Subir Sanyal, Sr. Advocate Mr. Arindam Moitra Mr. Ratul Biswas Mr. Ratul Das Mr. Sourojit Mukherjee … For the added respondents (CAN 2/2025)

Mr. Prahlad Chandra Ghosh Mr. Subir Hazra … For the added respondents (CAN 3/2025)

Mr. Sudip Ghosh Chowdhury Ms. Shreyeta Mitra Ms. Pritha Biswas … For the added respondents (CAN 4/2025)

Mr. Ujjal Ray Mr. Atreya Chakraborty … For the added respondents (CAN 5/2025 & CAN 11/2025)

Mr. Shuvro Prakash Lahiri Mr. Rajesh Naskar Mr. Ankan Mondal … For the added respondents (CAN 7/2025 & CAN 9/2025)

Mr. Soumavo Mukherjee Ms. Saswati Pahri … For the respondent Nos.152-155 (CAN 8/2025)

Mr. Ali Ahsan Alamgir Ms. Soma Mal Ms. June Modak … For the added respondents (CAN 10/2025)

Mr. Ashis Kumar Chowdhury Mr. Babhru Bahan Bera … For the added respondents (CAN 12/2025)

Mr. Ashis Kumar Chowdhury Mr. Sudip Jana … For the added respondents (CAN 13/2025)

Mr. Chinmoy Mondal (in person … Added respondent (CAN 14/2025)

Mr. Pritam Choudhury Mr. Sagnik Roy Chowdhury Ms. Swati Jha … For the added respondents (CAN 15/2025)

Mr. Pratik Dhar, Sr. Advocate (vc)

Mr. Sakhawat Khandakar Mr. Samir Halder Mr. Sagnik Roy Choudhury … For the added respondents (CAN 16/2025)

Mr. Soumitra Deb Mr. Sougata Banerjee … For the added respondents (CAN 17/2025)

Mr. Uday Sankar Chattopadhyay Mr. Pronay Basak Ms. Bidisha Chakraborty Ms. Sadia Parveen … For the applicants (CAN 18/2025)

Mr. Subir Sanyal, Sr. Advocate Mr. Arindam Maitra Mr. Ratul Das Mr. Sourojit Mukherjee … For the applicants (CAN 19/2025)

Mr. Puspal Chakraborty Mr. Samrat Dey Paul … for the applicants (CAN 20/2026)

1. The following documents filed in Court today be retained with the records.

a) Affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the West Bengal Central School Service Commission and reply thereto by the petitioners.

b) Affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the added respondents in CAN 1 of 2025.

c) Affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the added respondents in CAN 4 of 2025.

d) Affidavit-in-opposition in two volumes filed on behalf of the added respondents in CAN 11 of 2025 and the reply thereto by the petitioners.

e) Affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the respondent nos.152 to 155 (CAN 8 of

2025).

f) Affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the added respondents in CAN 12 of 2025 and CAN 13 of 2025.

g) Affidavit-in-reply filed on behalf of the petitioners against the affidavit-in- opposition filed by the added respondents in respect of CAN 17 of 2025.

2. The applicants in some of the connected applications seek extension of time for filing affidavit-in-opposition.

3. Let affidavit-in-opposition by the applicants be prepared and circulated within two weeks from date. Reply, if any, by the petitioners be filed within a week thereafter.

4. CAN 2 of 2025 stood allowed by the Court vide order dated 10th December, 2025, but inadvertently the appearance of the learned advocates representing CAN 2 of 2025 were not recorded in the said order.

5. Be it recorded that Mr. Subir Sanyal, learned Senior Advocate, Mr. Arindam Moitra, Mr. Ratul Biswas, and Mr. Sourojit Mukherjee represented the applicants in CAN 2 of 2025 before the Court on 10th December, 2025.

6. The order dated 10th December, 2025 is corrected accordingly.

7. Learned advocate for the petitioners has drawn attention of the Court to paragraph no.9 of the order dated 27th November, 2025. It has been submitted that the direc