IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Present:

THE HON’BLE JUSTICE SUJOY PAUL &

THE HON’BLE JUSTICE SMITA DAS DE MAT 1380 OF 2024 ANIRBAN PAL VS.

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK & ORS.

WITH MAT 1381 OF 2024 IA NO. CAN 2 OF 2024 PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK & ORS.

VS.

ANIRBAN PAL Appearance:

For the Appellant : Mr. Srijib Chakraborty, Adv.

In MAT 1380/2024 & Ms. Rupsa Sreemani, Adv.

For the Respondent in MAT 1381 of 2024 For the PNB : Mr. Saptansu Basu, Adv.

Ms. Parna Roy Choudhury, Adv.

Heard On : 11.08.2025 Judgment On : 14.08.2025 Sujoy Paul, J.: The Challenge:

1. In these intra Court appeals, the petitioner and the Bank are at logger heads on the legality, validity and propriety of the order passed by the learned Single Judge in WPA 10195 of 2023 dated 20.06.2024 whereby learned Single Judge held that the petition is filed with a delay of 3 years which extinguished petitioner’s challenge to the refusal of the Bank to restore his promotion to Scale-IV. The relief is declined to the petitioner on yet another ground that after his reversion, he did not avail at least two promotional chances from 2020 till the date of filing of writ petition. The Bank is aggrieved by the porti