In the High Court at Calcutta Civil Appellate Jurisdiction Appellate Side The Hon’ble Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya And The Hon’ble Justice Uday Kumar F.M.A. No.180 of 2025 with F.M.A. No.181 of 2025 IA No: CAN 1 of 2025 Standard Chartered Bank Limited Vs.

Sanjib Kumar Dey, alias Sanjib Dey and another For the appellant : Mr. Sabyasachi Chowdhury, Sr. Adv., Mr. Soorjya Ganguli, Ms. Pooja Chakraborti, Ms. A. Bhattacharyya, Mr. Aritra Deb For the respondent : Mr. Soumya Majumdar, Sr. Adv., Mr. S. R. Saha Hearing concluded on : 30.01.2025 Judgment on : 06.02.2025 Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.:-

1. The two appeals are taken up for hearing together, since both arise from connected orders passed in the same suit.

2. The plaintiff/respondent no.1 is an employee of the defendant no.

1/appellant-bank by virtue of an offer of appointment and employment agreement dated January 20, 2015. The defendant no. 2 /respondent no. 2 is a Mumbai branch of the appellant-bank.

3. The genesis of the appeals is a suit filed by the plaintiff/respondent no.

1, inter alia, for a decree of declaration that issuance of a letter dated January 29, 2024 by the defendants to the plaintiffs is illegal, bad in law and w