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

The Hon’ble Justice Madhuresh Prasad And The Hon’ble Justice Supratim Bhattacharya W.P.S.T. 210 of 2024 Dr. Satinath Samanta Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

For the Petitioner : Mr. Chitta Ranjan Chakraborty, Mr. Sumit Banerjee, Ms. Puspa Rani Jaiswara.

For the State : Mr. Tapan Kr. Mukherjee, Ld. AGP, Ms. Sangeeta Roy.

Judgment on : April 17, 2025.

Madhuresh Prasad, J.:

1. The petitioner was the applicant before the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal. He assailed the order rejecting his claim for pension in O.A. No. 810 of 2023. The West Bengal Administrative Tribunal (“SAT” for short) by its order dated 2^nd September, 2024 has rejected the petitioner’s Original Application upholding the rejection order.

2. The petitioner working as a medical officer in the Calcutta Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital (“college” for short) is seeking benefit of pension which has been declined by the authorities by an order dated 13^th October, 2023 by assigning a reason that the petitioner did not fulfil the requisite qualifying service for the purposes of grant of pension. Since the petitioner was appointed on 1