06.01.2026 Item no.A/L 172 Court No. 18 Sc In the High Court at Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side Case No. WPA 10413 of 2022 In the matter of : Mr. Gopal Mandal …. Petitioner VS. The State of West Bengal & Ors. ….Respondents For the Petitioner: Mr. Shamim ul Bari Ms. Asmita Mitra. ….Advocates For the WBCSSC: Dr. Sutanu Kumar Patra Ms. Supriya Dubey. ….Advocates 1. The petitioner’s prayer for general transfer stood rejected by the West Bengal School Service Commission in February, 2022 on the ground that his rank is low in the preferred school applied by him. 2. The petitioner presses for reconsideration of his application seeking general transfer. It appears that the rejection was made nearly four years back. The ranking of the petitioner may have changed by now. 3. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of with the observation that it will be open for the petitioner to file fresh application seeking transfer offline. 4. In the event such application is made, the same shall be considered by the respective authorities in accordance Page 2 with law at the earliest. Fate of the petitioner’s application shall be made known to him. Suspension of the Utsashree portal will not stand in the way of the respondents to consider the application made by the petitioner offline seeking transfer. 5. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished to the parties upon compliance of all the formalities. (Amrita Sinha, J.)