IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Civil Appellate Jurisdiction APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty &

The Hon’ble Justice Partha Sarathi Sen FMA 563 of 2024 Priyanka Dam -Versus-

West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. Ors..

For the Appellant : Mr. Pradip Kumar Tarafdar, Sr. Adv., Mr. Sambuddha Dutta, Mr. Aritra Palit.

For the WBSEDCL : Mr. Sumit Kumar Panja, Mr. Sujit Sankar Koley.

For the respondent : Mr. Saibal Kumar Acharya, nos. 9 & 10 Ms. Susmita Chatterjee, Mr. Masum Tarafdar.

Hearing is concluded on : 6^th February, 2025. Judgment On : 18^th March, 2025.

Tapabrata Chakraborty, J.

1. The present appeal has been preferred challenging a judgment dated

07.09.2022 passed by the learned single Judge in the writ petition being WPA 26657 of 2014 preferred by one Priyanka Dam (hereinafter referred to as Priyanka) inter alia praying for issuance of necessary direction upon the respondents to give her appointment and to allow her to join in the post of Assistant Manager (Human Resource and Administration) [hereinafter referred to as AM (HR&A)] under the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Committee Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as WBSEDCL).

2. Priya