RANJUGOPAL MUKHERJEE Vs. RAMAPADA MAHALDER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) -The Secretary of the Panchavaya Junior High School ('School' for short), under the Police Station of Raigunj, in the district of West Dinajpur and the guardians of five students of the School jointly filed a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India before a learned Judge of this Court alleging that the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education ('Board' for short) and the Director of Secondary Education, Government of West Bengal ('Director' for short) were illegally and unjustly withholding recognition of their School. By an order dated May 5, 1989, the learned Judge disposed of the said petition with the following directions :--

(2.) Alleging wilful disobedience of and non-compliance with the said order, the writ petitioners filed an application before the learned Judge for initiating a proceeding for contempt against the President and the Secretary of the Board and the Director. On that application, a Rule Nisi, being Civil Rule No. 9404(W) of 1989 was issued and it was disposed of by the learned Judge by his judgment and order-dated August 311, 1990, the operative part of which reads as follows :-

(3.) The above order is under challenge in the instant appeal, filed by the President and Secretary of the Board.