IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction APPELLATE SIDE Present:

The Hon’ble Justice Harish Tandon &

The Hon’ble Justice Partha Sarathi Chatterjee MAT 47 of 2025 IA No. CAN 1 of 2025 IA No. CAN 2 of 2025 The District Inspector of Schools (SE), North 24 Parganas Versus Smt. Shila Kabiraj and Others.

For the appellant : Mr. Sanjib Das.

For the writ petitioner/respondent no. 1 : Mr. Biswarup Biswas, Mr. Pradip Kumar Ghosh, Ms. Nupur Choudhuri.

Hearing is concluded on : 17th February, 2025 Judgment On : 18^th March, 2025 Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, J.

1. With a view to resuscitating the time-barred lis, the present application has been filed by the State of West Bengal and its functionaries, seeking condonation of a delay of 1,389 days in filing the proposed appeal, which aims to challenge the ex-parte order dated 11.03.2019 passed in WPA 18015 of

2019.

2. The order dated 11.03.2019 mandated the respondents/applicants to grant a higher scale of pay to the petitioner, who joined the School with a Post Graduate degree in Physical Education, and to fix her salary accordingly, effective from 16.01.2009, within a specified time-frame. Additionally, the order directed the paymen