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20.01.2026 Item No.21 Court. No. 11 Avijit Mitra MAT 1886 of 2025 with IA No.CAN 1 of 2025 Animesh Bandyopadhyay - Versus -

State of West Bengal & ors.

Mr. Asim Kumar Niyogi, Mr. Vaskar Pal .…for the appellant Mr. Swapan Kumar Datta, Ld. G.P., Mr. Rajat Dutta ….for the State respondents Mr. Sirsanya Bandopadhyay, Sr. Standing Counsel Ms. Tapati Samanta ….for the respondent no.4

1. The present appeal has been preferred challenging an order dated 21^st August, 2025 passed in a writ petition being WPA No.18710 of 2025. The said writ petition was preferred, inter alia, praying for issuance of necessary direction upon the respondents to forthwith give employment to the appellant, namely, Animesh Bandopadhyay (in short, Animesh) ‘under Exempted Land looser category as the 8 (eight) post of the declared (nine) posts are vacant under UREC’. By the impugned order, the writ petition was rejected primarily on the ground that having participated being aware of the eligibility criteria of the said selection test, Animesh could not have questioned the selection process after being unsuccessful.

2. Shorn of unnecessary details the facts are that a recruitment notice was issued vide memo dated 29^t