REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 1694 OF 2006

The State of West Bengal

and others

…

Appellants

Versus

Kamal Sengupta and another

… Respondents

J U D G M E N T

G.S. Singhvi, J.

1.

Whether a Tribunal established under Section 4 of the Administrative

Tribunals Act (for short ‘the Act’) can review its decision on the basis of

subsequent order/decision/judgment rendered by a coordinate or larger

bench or any superior Court or on the basis of subsequent

event/development is the question which arises for determination of this

appeal filed by the State of West Bengal and others against the judgment of

the High Court of Calcutta, whereby the said High Court declined to

interfere with order dated 25.9.2001 passed by the West Bengal

Administrative Tribunal (for short ‘the Tribunal’) in R.A. No.26 of 1998.

2.

The facts necessary for deciding the aforementioned question are as

under:-

(i)

Respondents Kamal Sengupta and Narayan Chandra Ghosh appeared

in the competitive examination conducted by the West Bengal Public

Service Commission in 1973 for recruitment to West Bengal Civil

Services (Execu