17-06-2026 Item No.28 Subrata Bhattacharyya AR(C) IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side WPA No.4787 of 2026 Pradip Kumar Mandal -vs- The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Santanu Maji Mr. Subhayu Das …for the petitioner Ms. Aparna Banerjee, AGP Mr. Madhu Jana Mr. Atanu Basu Ms. Puja Sonkar …for the State Mr. Ratul Biswas Mr. Kaushik Chowdhury … for WBBPE Mr. Ranjan Saha … for DPSC, Paschim Medinipur 1. Affidavit of service filed in Court today be kept with the records. 2. The petitioner seeks transfer on self-medical ground. His application for transfer is pending consideration before the Secretary, West Bengal Board of Primary Education. 3. Without entering into the merits of the claim of the petitioner, the instant writ petition is disposed of by the directing the Secretary, West Bengal Board of Primary Education to consider the said application in accordance with law, at the earliest, but positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order. 4. Report of the CMOH shall be taken into consideration at the time of taking a decision in the matter. 5. The fate of the petitioner’s application shall be made known to the petitioner immediately thereafter. 6. If the application of the petitioner is allowed, then necessary consequential steps shall be taken without any further delay. 7. Suspension of the Utsoshree portal will not stand in the way of consideration of the application seeking transfer. 8. Learned advocate of the petitioner is directed to forward a copy of the application seeking transfer along with all supporting documents to the aforesaid respondent at the time of communicating the order of the Court. 9. Writ petition stands disposed. 10. All parties are to act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. 11. Certified copy of this order, if applied for, shall be made available to the parties. [Amrita Sinha, J] 2 3