Sl.24 13.05.2026 chanchal In The High Court At Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side W.P.A 6500 of 2026 Ratna Mondal -versus The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Sudip Ghosh Chowdhury, Adv., Ms. Pritha Biswas, Adv., Ms. Upasana Sarkar. Adv. … for the petitioner Mr. Kanak Kiran Bandyopadhyay … for the WBCSSC 1. Let affidavit of service, as filed in Court, be kept on record. 2. In spite of service, none appears on behalf of the school authorities. 3. The petitioner is an Assistant Teacher. She had applied for transfer on general ground. The application has, however, been rejected by the school authorities since 2021. Since a long time has lapsed since the application was made in 2021, the petitioner is granted liberty to file a fresh application in the prescribed form with the school authorities by June 30, 2026. 4. The school authorities will consider the same and expedite the onward progression by sending such application to the concerned District Inspector of Schools (S.E.) if she is otherwise eligible. 5. Since the ‘Utsashree Portal’ is suspended, the application will be made in the offline mode and be considered by the school and other authorities in the offline mode. 2 6. With these aforesaid directions, the writ petition is disposed of. 7. There shall, however, be no order as to costs. 8. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties on priority basis. ( Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)