FORM NO. J (2)

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

THE HON’BLE JUSTICE OM NARAYAN RAI WPA 27526 OF 2024 SANTANU KUMAR ROY Vs.

UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

FOR THE PETITIONER : MR. ANAMITRA BANERJEE, ADVOCATE FOR THE RESPONDENT : MR. SUBRATA KUMAR SINHA, ADVOCATE NOS. 2 TO 5 FOR THE : MR. SHAUNAK GHOSE, ADVOCATE RESPONDENT NO. 6 MR. MD. SUHAIL, ADVOCATE MS. PARAMITA MONDAL, ADVOCATE MR. SUMAN HALDER HEARD ON : MARCH 28, 2025 JUDGMENT ON : MARCH 28, 2025 THE COURT:

1. The writ petitioner claims to be a Customer Service Provider (hereafter “CSP”) engaged by the Business Correspondent (hereafter “BC”), namely, the respondent No. 6 herein. The petitioner complains that the petitioner’s services as such CSP has been arbitrarily terminated by the respondent No. 6. The petitioner principally prays for a direction upon the Respondents to take steps for returning the petitioner’s CSP ID to him.

2. On a pointed query from the Court as to how a writ petition would be maintained in the present fact situation, Mr. Anamitra Banerjee, the learned Advocate for the writ petitioner relies on the celebrated judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court rendered in the cas