IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present :-

The Hon’ble Justice PARTHA SARATHI SEN RVW 241 OF 2024 West Bengal Gramin Bank -Vs-

Union of India & Ors.

For the Petitioners: Mr. Soumya Majumder, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Surasri Baidya, Adv.

For PF Authority: Mr. Shiv Chandra Prasad, Adv.

For Respondent No. 5: Mr. Sailesh Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Prosenjit Das, Adv.

Mr. T.N. Jha, Adv.

Hearing concluded on: 17.02.2026. Judgment on: 23.02.2026.

PARTHA SARATHI SEN, J. : –

1. The instant review is at the instance of the writ petitioner. The writ petitioner seeks review of the judgment and order dated 21.06.2024 as passed by this Court in WPA 19141 of 2023 (Paschim Banga Gramin Bank Vs.

Union of India & Ors.).

2. It is pertinent to mention herein that on account of an order of amalgamation dated 01.05.2025 the writ petitioner Paschim Banga Gramin Bank amalgamated with West Bengal Gramin Bank and as such the instant review petition is at the instance of the West Bengal Gramin Bank (hereinafter referred to as the ‘review petitioner’ in short) and the cause title of the review petition has been amended as per leave granted by this Court.

3. At the time of hearing of the instant review petition Mr. Majumder, learned Senior Advocate appearing on behalf of the review petitioner in his usual fairness submits before this Court that the instant review petition has been filed basically on account of discovery of new and important matter or evidence which, after the exercise of due diligence was not within the knowledge of the review petitioner.

4. In course of his argument Mr. Majumder at the very outset draws attention of this Court to the supplementary affidavit as filed on behalf of the writ petitioner and as affirmed on 03.10.2024. Drawing attention to page nos. 19 to 22 of the supplementary affidavit being a copy of the judgment and order dated 25.04.2018 as passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Special Leave to Appeal (C) No. (S) 38288/2012 (Union of India Vs. Gramin Bank Pensioners Samiti & Ors.) it is submitted by Mr. Majumder that from the said order dated 25.04.2013 the Hon’ble Supreme Court directed the Union of India to implement the judgment as passed in WP(C) No. 210/213 in respect of the Regional Rural Banks (‘RRB’ in short) expeditiously.

5. Drawing attention to page nos. 23 to 29 of the said supplementary affidavit being copies of different memos dated 13.12.2018, 13.02.2019 and 19.04.2019 as issued by the Union of India and its instrumentalities, it is submitted by Mr. Majumder that from the said office memos it would reveal that pursuant to the direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court the Union of India has framed and implemented Model Regional Rural Bank (Employees’) Pension Regulation, 2018 and Regional Rural Bank (Employees’) Pension Scheme, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘said regulation’ and the ‘said scheme’ respectively) which has been duly notified in the official gazette of India soon thereafter as would be evident from OM dated 29.04.2019. It is further submitted by Mr. Majumder that as per the said Scheme, those employees of the RRB who were in service as on 01.09.1987 and joined between 01.09.1987 and 31.03.2010 and exercised an option to be governed by the Pension Regulation would be covered under the said Scheme.

6. At this juncture, Mr. Majumder draws attention of this Court to page nos.

31 and 32 of the said supplementary affidavit being two Office Memos dated 27.12.2019 as issued by the Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner (Compliance) and the General Manager of the review petitioner addressed to the said Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (Compliance). It is submitted by Mr. Majumder that upon getting instruction from the PF Authority the review petitioner has formulated a pension scheme namely ‘Paschim Banga Gramin Bank (Employees’) Pension Scheme, 2018 and established pension fund for all the employees with effect from 01.04.2018 and thus, the review petitioner has approached the P