26 24.09.2026 sb Ct.3. IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE WPA 24948 of 2026 Sudip Bagchi Versus The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Partha Sarathi Das Ms. Maria Sharwari Ms. P. Panda Mr. Agrajyoti Chand Ms. Sudipa Das … For the petitioner. Mr. Tapas Kumar Chatterjee Mr. Arindam Bagchi …. For the State. Mr. Arindam Das Ms. Dibyanjona Das … For the municipality. 1. Affidavit of service filed in Court is taken on record. 2. The present writ petition has been filed, inter alia, praying for a direction upon the municipality to consider the petitioner’s representation dated 3rd August, 2026. 3. The matter has a previous history. 4. The petitioner claims that the petitioner was engaged by the municipality on temporary basis and had been serving Berhampore Municipality as Mazdoor. Later the petitioner had made a prayer for regularization. Since, such prayer was not considered and though similarly situated persons had been regularized, the petitioner has approached this Court by filing a writ petition which was registered as WPA 7099 of 2021. By an order dated 15th 2 WPA 24948 of 2026 November, 2021 a Coordinate Bench of this Court was pleased to dispose of the said writ petition by granting liberty to the petitioner to approach the Director of Local Bodies, Government of West Bengal along with all documents. In furtherance to the aforesaid, an order has already been passed by the Director of Local Bodies recording that the petitioner’s service cannot be regularized in view of the Circular issued by the Chief Secretary vide no. 1518/SIW dated 2nd December, 2009. There is no challenge to the aforesaid order. The petitioner, however, once again is interested to reopen the case by filing a representation. 5. Having heard the learned advocates appearing for the respective parties I am of the view, in the peculiar facts, in absence of any challenge to the order of rejecting the petitioner’s prayer for regularization, there is no scope for this Court to pass any order in the instant writ petition directing the respondents to reconsider his case. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for be given to the parties upon compliance with the requisite formalities. (Raja Basu Chowdhury, J.)