(Ab) vs The State Of West Bengal & Ors
2022 Latest Caselaw 32 Cal

Court No. 24                       W.P.A. 19077 of 2021
05.01.2022                         (via video conference)
(Item No. 37)
                                      Subrata Ghosh
(AB)                                        VS
                              The State of West Bengal & Ors.

                        Mr. Dilip Kumar Das
                                              ... for the petitioner.
                        Mr. Ratul Biswas
                                                  ... for the Board


                        The petitioner is aggrieved by the reply dated 14th

                September, 2021 given by the Secretary of the West Bengal

                Board of Primary Education whereby the authority has

                refused to supply the copy of the OMR sheet to him.

                        The Board has clearly mentioned that in terms of the

                judgment passed by the Hon'ble High Court on 22nd April,

                2019 in W.P. No. 6135 (W) of 2019 and W.P. No. 5704 (W) of

                2019 the West Bengal Board of Primary Education is obliged

                to preserve the OMR sheet and information till November 9,

                2016.

                        The petitioner in the instant case has applied for the

                OMR sheet in respect of the TET Examination 2015 by an

                application made on 9th September, 2021.

                        As it appears that the Board has acted in accordance

                with the direction passed by the Hon'ble Court in the

                aforesaid writ petitions accordingly, apparently, there is no

                infirmity on the part of the respondent authority in replying

to the application made by the petitioner under the Right to

Information Act, 2005.

The writ petition fails and is hereby dismissed.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied

for, be given to the parties after completion of all legal

formalities.

(Amrita Sinha, J.)