West Bengal Service Rules (Part I)

The respondents, originally appointed as peons in 1970, opted for Group C status in 1971 after a pay‑scale revision that placed employees drawing above Rs 230 in Group C. When they reached the statutory retirement age of 58, a retirement notice was issued. They challenged the notice, contending that under Rule 76 of th…

The State of West Bengal appealed against a Calcutta High Court order that created an intermediate pay scale for direct‑recruit Lower Division Clerks (LDCs) after the posts of Muharrirs were redesignated and fused into the LDC cadre. The Supreme Court examined whether former Muharrirs, now LDCs, could be given a higher…

The case concerned a group of senior Lower Division Assistants (LDAs) who sought to have their pay stepped up to match that of a junior employee, Gopinath Dey, invoking West Bengal Service Rule 55(4). The Court found that Dey had been erroneously granted a higher pay scale and that the two conditions for Rule 55(4) – b…