05th Mar., 2026 Item no.D/L 24 Court No. 18 Pradip, A.R.(Ct.) In the High Court at Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side Case No. WPA 2462 of 2026 In the matter of : Ramkrishna Nai …. Petitioner VS. The State of West Bengal & Ors. ….Respondents For the Petitioner: Mr. Anuran Samanta ….Advocate For the State: Mr. Santanu Kumar Mitra, Sr. Govt. Advocate Ms. Anandamoyee Ghosh ….Advocate For the Respondent no. 2: Mr. Debjit Mukherjee Ms. Priyanka Jana ….Advocate 1. Affidavit of service filed in Court today is taken on record. 2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the inaction on the part of the Judicial Department and the Appellate Authority to consider and dispose of the appeal preferred by him against the order of the learned District Judge, Purba Bardhaman in connection with Departmental Proceeding Case No. 01 of 2024. 3. Without entering into the merit of the claim of the petitioner as portrayed in the appeal, the instant writ petition is disposed of by directing the Judicial Department to take a decision on the petitioner’s appeal strictly in accordance with law at the earliest but positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order. Page 2 4. A reasoned order shall be passed and communicated to the petitioner immediately thereafter. 5. The writ petition stands dispose of. 6. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance of all requisite formalities. (Amrita Sinha, J.)