Arnab Mukherjee vs. The State Of West Bengal

SLPC 9586/2024

ITEM NO.12+13+26+28+30 COURT NO.1 SECTION XVI

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.9586/2024

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 22-04-2024 in WPA No.30649/2016 passed by the High Court at Calcutta)

THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

BAISHAKHI BHATTACHARYYA (CHATTERJEE) & ORS. Respondent(s)

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WITH SLP(C) No. 11752/2024 (XVI)

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S.L.P.(C) No.10552/2024 (XVI)

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S.L.P.(C) No.11880/2024 (XVI)

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S.L.P.(C) No.11746/2024 (XVI)

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S.L.P.(C) No.10599/2024 (XVI)

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S.L.P.(C) No.10545/2024 (XVI)

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Digitally signed by CHETAN KUMAR Date: 2024.07.22 09:46:18 IST Reason: Signature Not Verified

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JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.11878/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.109303/2024-EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.9614/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.100244/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No.109776/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 104659/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.109551/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES and IA No.102519/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ ANNEXURES) S.L.P.(C) No.10617/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.110036/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No.130324/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No. 130425/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) S.L.P.(C) No.11867/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.111707/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.11883/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.102194/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.9637/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.100744/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No.105823/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 104698/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No.102398/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES, IA No. 100751/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES) S.L.P.(C) No.12766/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.128390/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.11721/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.119687/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT) S.L.P.(C) No.15233/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.112811/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT and IA No.112810/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE SLP) S.L.P.(C) No.15232/2024 (XVI) (With IA No.125406/2024 - ADDITION / DELETION / MODIFICATION PARTIES, IA No.115015/2024 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No.138377/2024 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT and IA No.115014/2024 - PERMISSION TO FILE SLP) S.L.P.(C) No.13358/2024 (XVI)

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Date : 16-07-2024 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ MISRA

For Petitioner(s)	Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR<br>Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv.
	Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv.

Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR

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Mr. Rakesh Dwivedi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sunil Fernandes, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjay Basu, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Piyush Aggarwal, Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Eklavya Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Anju Thomas, Adv. Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv. Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Chakravarty, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Mishra, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv. Ms. Lihzu Shiney Konyak, Adv. Ms. Shrivalli Kajaria, Adv. Mr. Toshiv Goyal, Adv. Mr. Ritwik Mohapatra, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Sharma, Adv. Mr. Raghav Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Varun Tyagi, Adv. Ms. Diksha Dadu, Adv. Ms. Rajshree Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Soumya Saxena, Adv. Mr. Archit Adlakha, Adv. Mr. Aditya Raj Pandey, Adv. Mr. Debojyoti Das, Adv. Ms. Pratibha Yadav, Adv. Mr. Simranjeet Singh Rekhi, Adv. Mr. Pratik Dhar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sarad Kumar Singhania, AOR Mr. Gouranga Debnath, Adv. Mr. Yash Singhania, Adv. Mr. Kalyan Bandyopadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Uday Gupta, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shivani Lal, Adv. Mr. Hiren Dasan, Adv. Mr. Suman Sengupta, Adv.

Mr. Rahul Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Sanam Singh, Adv. Ms. Yogamaya M.g., Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Adv. Ms. Sundri, Adv. Mr. Parminder Singh Bhullar, AOR Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddharth Bhatnagar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv. Mr. A. Karthik, AOR Ms. Devahuti Pathak, Adv. Mr. Anshula Laroiya, Adv. Mr. Yash Johri, Adv. Mr. Tenzing Namgyal Bhutia, Adv. Mr. B.D. Rao Kundan, Adv. Ms. Smrithi Suresh, Adv. Ms. Sreepriya K., Adv. Ms. Gunjan Rathore, Adv. Mr. Devesh Kumar Mishra, AOR Mr. Manjul Kumar Tiwary, Adv. Mr. Kousik Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Satender Kr Vashistha, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Vashisthe, Adv. Mr. S Murlidhar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Supratik Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Ramendra Mohan Patnaik, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sailesh Madiyal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chandrashekhar A. Chakalabbi, Adv. Mr. S.k Pandey, Adv. Mr. Awanish Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anshul Rai, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Garg, Adv. Mr. Ravilochan Daliparthi, Adv. Mr. Rajan Parmar, Adv. Mr. G. Anusha, Adv. Mr. Sanket Shankarappa Ambali, Adv.

Mr. Varnik, Adv. M/s. Dharmaprabhas Law Associates Mr. Jaydip Pati, AOR Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pramit Kumar Ray, Sr. Adv. Mr. Partha Burman, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Rohatgi, Adv. Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Mr. Shashank Khurana, Adv. Ms. Saheli Sen, Adv. Mr. Vishal Banshal, Adv. Mr. Haripriya Padmanabhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Soumya Dutta, AOR Mr. Siddhant Upmanyu, Adv. Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shaunak Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Shakhawat Khandekar, Adv. Mr. Karthik Sunder, Adv. Ms. Bhavya Pande, Adv. Mr. Gokul Athithaya Rp, Adv. Mr. Sawashank Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Sawati Jha, Adv. Mr. Anindo Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Vijay Kumar, Adv. Mr. Deepak Chopra, Adv. Mr. Sumit, Adv. Dr. Ram Kishor Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Chandan Kumar Mandal, Adv. Ms. Kaveeta Wadia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, AOR Mr. Dushyant Dave, Sr. Adv. Mr. Raju Ramachandran, Sr. Adv. Mr. Surjo Seth, Adv. Mr. Soumik Ghosal, AOR Mr. Gaurav Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhrubajit Saikia, Adv. Mr. Riju Mani Talukdar, AOR Ms. Tapati Sarkar, Adv.

Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Pawan Duggal, Sr. Adv. Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Adv. Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Partha Sil, Adv. Mr. Mangaljit Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AOR Mr. Kailash Vasudev, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kiran Kumar Patra, AOR Mr. Umrao Singh Rawat, Adv. Mr. Chandan Maity, Adv. Ms. Astha Bhardwaj, Adv. Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv. Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Arindom Mitra, Adv. Ms. Sana Parveen, Adv. Mr. Chandratanay Chaubey, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Arora, Adv. Mr. K. Ashwin Prabhu, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Gouse Muddin Khan, Adv. Mrs. Madhavi Dewan, Sr. Adv. Mr. P.S. Patwalia, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anindya Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Ms. Pranati Das, Adv. Ms. Sayani Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Abhiraj Choudhary, Adv. Mr. Samrat De Paul, Adv. Mr. Pushpal Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Mainak Ganguly, Adv. Mr. Argha Chowdhury, Adv. Mr. Subhrangshu Panda, Adv. Mr. Debottam Das, Adv. Mrs. V.D. Khanna, AOR Mr. Sanjay Hegde, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjoy Ghose, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikram Hegde, Adv.

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Ms. Koyeli Bhattacharya, Adv. Ms. Hima Lawrence, AOR Ms. Chinmayi Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Rohan Mandal, Adv. Mr. Amit Pawan, AOR Mr. Milan Muherjee, Sr. Adv. Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Narvarkar, Adv. Mr. Bishwaroop Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Mangaljeet Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Debojyoti Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. P. Sil, Adv. Mr. Brajkeshor Pandit, Adv. Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Amitabrato Roy, Adv. Mr. Jayprakash B. Somani, Adv. Mrs. Shobha Somani, Adv. Mr. Rajnish Kumar, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Chowdhary, Adv. Ms. Mamta Rani, Adv. Ms. Ekta Verma, Adv. Mr. Nishant Verma, Adv. Ms. Shisba Chawla, AOR Mr. Jayprakash B. Somani, Adv. Mrs. Shobha Somani, Adv. Mr. Nishant Verma, AOR Mr. Rajnish Kumar, Adv. Ms. Mamta Rani, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Chowdhary, Adv. Ms. Shisba Chawla, Adv. Ms. Ekta Verma, Adv. Mrs. Haripriya Padmanabhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shubir Sanyal, Adv. Mr. Shuvro Prokash Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Bapi Das, Adv. Mr. Soumya Dutta, AOR Ms. Chittapriya Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Somesh Ghosh, Adv.

Mr. M.R. Shamshad, Adv. Mr. Shashank Singh, AOR Mr. Arijit Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Nabeela Jamil, Adv. Mr. Akash Alex, Adv. Mr. S. Guru Krishnakumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kalyan Bandhopadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anindya Lahiri, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil, AOR Ms. Pranati Das, Adv. Ms. Sayani Bhattacharya, Adv. Mr. Samrat De Paul, Adv. Mr. Abhiraj Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Vibha Datta Makhija, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dibyadyuti Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Sumedha Halder, Adv. Mr. Ali Ahsan Alamgir, Adv. Mr. Asif Iqbal, Adv. Mr. Soma Mal, Adv. Mr. June Modak, Adv. Mr. Abhijit Sengupta, AOR For Respondent(s) Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR Mr. Bikram Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Tejasvi Gupta, Adv. Mr. Pawan Upadhyay, Adv. Mr. T. Illayarasu, Adv. Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rauf Rahim, Sr. Adv. Mr. Bikram Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Firdous Samim, Adv. Ms. Gopa Biswas, Adv. Mr. Sudipta Dasgupta, Adv. Mr. Arkadeb Biswas, Adv. Ms. Payel Shome, Adv. Mr. Arka Nandi, Adv.

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Ms. Sampriti Saha, Adv. Ms. Dipa Acharya, Adv. Mr. Avijit Kar, Adv. Mr. Saikat Sutradhar, Adv. Ms. Purba Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Sondwip Sutradhar, Adv. Ms. Mohana Das, Adv. Mr. Suthirtha Nayek, Adv. Ms. Shalini Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Sagar Dey, Adv. Ms. Sagarika Goswami, Adv. Ms. Sinjini Chakrabarti, Adv. Mr. Baibhav Roy, Adv. Ms. Saptaparni Raha, Adv. Ms. Suryatapa Das, Adv. Mr. Shekhar Kumar, AOR Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Firdous Samim, Adv. Mr. Bikram Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Sudipta Dasgupta, Adv. Mr. Arkadeb Biswas, Adv. Mr. Arkadeb Diswas, Adv. Ms. Gopa Biswas, Adv. Mr. Arka Nandi, Adv. Ms. Dipa Acharya, Adv. Mr. Saikat Sutradhar, Adv. Mr. Sondwip Sutradhar, Adv. Mr. Suthirtha Nayek, Adv. Ms. Shalini Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Sagar Dey, Adv. Ms. Sagarika Goswami, Adv. Ms. Saptaprani Raha, Adv. Ms. Sinhini Chakrabarti, Adv. Mr. Baibhav Roy, Adv. Mr. Suryatapa Das, Adv. Ms. Saptarani Raha, Adv. Ms. Suryatapa Das, Adv. Mr. C. Aravind, Adv. Mr. Avinash Shukla, Adv. Mr. Subhro Prokas Mukherjee, AOR Ms. Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Adv.

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Mr. Adeel Ahmed, AOR Mr. Arindom Mitra, Adv. Ms. Sana Parveen, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Arora, Adv. Mr. Chandratanay Chaube, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Shalini Kaul, AOR Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Partha Sil, Adv. Mr. Mangaljit Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Anjan Dutta, Adv. Ms. Debolina Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Rajnil Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Vishal Arun Mishra, AOR Mr. Masta Fizur Rahaman, Adv. Ms. Ishita Srivastava, Adv. Mr. V J Puspakumar, Adv. Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed J, Adv. Mr. Rahul Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vaibhav Singh, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Pravakar, Adv. Mr. Tavish B. Prasad, Adv. Mr. Goutam Dey, Adv. Arkadipta Sengupta, Adv. Ms. Aayushi Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. S.B. Upadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ashis Kumar Chowdhury, Adv. Mr. Rajib Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Babhru Bahan Bera, Adv. Mr. Sukesh Ghosh, Adv. Mr. R.C. Kaushik, Adv.

Ms. Rachna Srivastava, Sr. Adv.

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Mr. Ashis Kumar Chowdhury, Adv. Mr. Rajib Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Babhru Bahan Bera, Adv. Mr. Chand Qureshi, Adv. Mr. Sukesh Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Bhaskar, Adv. Mr. Piyush Malik, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

• 1 Permission to file the Special Leave Petition is granted.
• 2 Notice shall issue in all cases where notice is not issued thus far.
• 3 No counter affidavit has been filed till date. In the event that any of the respondents seek to file their counters, they shall do so on or before 30 July 2024. If no counter is filed by then, the right to file a counter affidavit shall stand closed and the proceedings shall be conducted on the basis of the record as it stands.
• 4 Broadly speaking, it has emerged from the submissions of the counsel on both the sides that the principal submissions in relation to the present batch of cases would comprise of the following:
  • (i) The Government of West Bengal;
  • (ii) The West Bengal Central School Services Commission and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education;
  • (iii) Original petitioners before the High Court who are not selected (representing classes IX and X; XI and XII; and groups 'C' and 'D') and similarly situated persons;

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• (iv) Persons whose appointments have been cancelled by the judgment of the High Court; and
• (v) The Central Bureau of Investigation.
• 5 We have clarified during the course of the hearing to assuage the concerns of all the counsel that these are broad categories and will not exclude the possibility of any person having a distinct case presenting it before this Court.
• 6 All the counsel appearing in this batch of matters who fall into one of the above stated categories shall furnish details to Ms Astha Sharma, counsel for the State of West Bengal during the course of the day so that a consolidated master list of counsel can be prepared.
• 7 Given the large number of petitions which have been filed before this Court, it would be necessary to have a common compilation which can be relied upon by all the counsel at the time of hearing.
• 8 In order to facilitate the preparation of a common compilation, by consent, we appoint the following advocates as nodal counsel:
  • (i) Ms Astha Sharma;
  • (ii) Ms Shalini Kaul;
  • (iii) Mr Shekhar Kumar;
  • (iv) Mr Kunal Chatterjee; and
  • (v) Mr Partha Sil.
• 9 The nodal counsel shall prepare a common compilation in the electronic form. The common compilation shall be circulated to all the counsel

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appearing on behalf of the contesting parties in the proceedings and also be emailed to [email protected]. This exercise shall be completed within a period of two weeks.

• 10 Counsel appearing for the above categories will be at liberty to file their submissions not exceeding five pages each. We request all counsel appearing for a given category to prepare one set of submission. However, it is clarified that one counter affidavit alone will be filed in the lead matter.
• 11 The proceedings shall be listed for final hearing on 6 August 2024.

(CHETAN KUMAR) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) A.R.-cum-P.S. Assistant Registrar