ASHIM KUMAR KHAN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) None appears on behalf of the State Respondents on January 15, 2014. The hearing of this was adjourned to give the above respondents one more chance. The above order was communicated to the learned Advocate appearing on behalf of the State-Respondents. None appears on behalf of the State respondents when the matter, is called on today. Let the affidavit of service be kept on record. The writ application is filed by the petitioner assailing an order passed by the respondent No. 3 under is memo No. 18/3(iii) 6 dated January 16, 2013. By virtue of the impugned order the prayer of the petitioner for extending the benefit of post graduate scale of pay in connection with his service as an Assistant Teacher of Sedikhan's Dearh Vidyaniketan, District-Murshidabad in Language (Bengali) was rejected.

(2.) Having heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner as also after considering the impugned order I find that the above claim of the petitioner was rejected on the following grounds:

(3.) The point of law regarding staff pattern has already been decided in the matter of Raghunath Mondal v. State of West Bengal & Ors., 2013 3 WbLR 556and the relevant portions of the above decision are quoted below: