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 WPST 137 of 2025 NIRMAL CHANDRA BISWAS Vs STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.

For the Petitioner : Mr. Victor Chatterjee, Mr. Barnamoy Basak, Ms. Shreya Bhattacharjee.

For the State : Mr. Tapan Kumar Mukherjee, Ld. AGP, Mr. Somnath Naskar.

For the P.S.C. : Ms. Shraboni Sarkar, Ms. Umme Habiba Khatun.

Judgment on : February 17, 2026.

Madhuresh Prasad, J

1. Briefly stating the facts leading to filing of this writ petition is that one Pritam Ghosal and present petitioner were unsuccessful candidates in the process of selection to the post of Krishi Prayukti Sahayak in the same selection process. Being aggrieved by introduction of qualifying marks for interview, leading to their disqualification both filed individual Original Applications before the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal (“Tribunal” for short). The present petitioner’s O.A was 741 of 2019, whereas Pritam Ghosal’s OA was filed thereafter and numbered as O.A 940 of 2019. It is their common case that as per advertisement the written examination comprised of total 150 marks (Par