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

The Hon’ble Justice Ananya Bandyopadhyay W.P.A. 9037 of 2011 Laljee Prasad -Vs-

Union of India & Ors.

For the Petitioner : Mr. Achin Kumar Majumder For the Respondents : Mr. Sukumar Bhattacharyya Ms. Ranjana Chatterjee Heard on : 06.02.2025, 03.03.2025, 11.09.2025 Judgment on : 02.02.2026 Uploaded on : 06.02.2026 Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.:-

1. The petitioner serving as a Constable of the Railway Protection Force under the Eastern Railway and posted at the RPF Post. T.E. Coy, Malda narrates the trajectory of the disciplinary proceedings initiated against him as one marked by haste, preconception and then erosion of the very safeguards that the law enshrines for ensuring fairness in administrative action. The proceedings spanning the period from 30th August, 2008 to 6th April, 2010, according to him reveal a disturbing pattern in which statutory mandates and elementary principles of natural justice have stood compromised at every decisive stage.

2. The petitioner recounted on 30.08.2008 he was placed under suspension on the premise of contemplated departmental proceedings, a suspension which was subseque