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

The Hon’ble Justice Madhuresh Prasad And The Hon’ble Justice Prasenjit Biswas MAT 1552 of 2019 Coal India Ltd.

Vs.

Sukhbinder Singh Saini & Ors.

For the Appellant : Mr. Jayanta Kumar Mitra, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Snehatosh Majumdar, Mr. Varun Kedia, Mr. Avee Jaiswal.

For the Respondent Nos. 1 to 9 : Mr. Jaydeep Kar, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Debdeep Sinha, Ms. A. Chakraborty.

Judgment on : March 17, 2026 Madhuresh Prasad, J.:

1. Heard the learned senior advocates representing the parties. The appellant, Coal India Limited (CIL) was the respondent before the writ court and has challenged the order of the writ court, dated 09.09.2019, in the present proceeding.

2. A brief factual background to filing of the writ petition is that the writ petitioners were working in the CIL on a non-executive grade. They are diploma holders and were stagnating in a particular grade for more than a decade. They moved before the authority raising a grievance in this regard. A sub-committee was thus constituted by the CIL on 14.02.2008, to consider their grievance and examine an issue regarding career growth of the writ petitioners. Pursuant to report o