Form No.J(2)

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

The Hon’ble Justice Raja Basu Chowdhury WPA 16034 of 2017 Mitra Kumar Mondal versus The State Bank of India & Ors.

For the petitioner : Mr. Kallol Basu Ms. Baisali Ghoshal Mr. Atreya Chakraborty For the respondents/ : Mr. Subrata Kumar Sinha Bank. Mr. S. Pal Choudhury Heard on : 31.01.2025 & 21.02.2025.

Judgment on : 21st April, 2025 Raja Basu Chowdhury, J:

1. The instant writ petition has been filed, inter alia, for a direction upon the respondents to regularize the service of the petitioner as permanent employee of the respondent no.1 (hereinafter referred to as the Bank) in the post of messenger, the post in which the petitioner has been continuously serving for the last 22 years, till the date of filing of the writ petition.

2. The instant case proceeds on the premise that on 27th December

1982 the petitioner was engaged as a temporary messenger in Hura Branch of the State Bank of India in the district of Purulia. It is his case that between 17th December 1982 to 12th April 1995 he had worked for a period of more than 607 days, with certain interval and gaps. He claims that on 27th Decem