IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
                        CIVIL  APPELLATE JURISDICTION


                       CIVIL APPEAL NO. 3177   OF 2010


      PIYU DATTA                                    Appellant(s)
                           :VERSUS:
      STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.             Respondent(s)










                                  O R D E R


      1.       We have heard the learned counsel for the parties.


      2.       This appeal is directed against the judgment and order  dated
      3rd July, 2008 passed by the High Court of Calcutta in  M.A.T.  No.223
      of 2008 whereby the appeal filed by the respondents was allowed.


      3.       The appellant was appointed as a Teacher in the  Lake  School
      for Girls on 10.7.1993 and she has been continuing as  a  teacher  for
      the last almost 19 years but she has yet not been regularised.




                              -2-


      4.       In the peculiar facts and  circumstances  of  this  case  and
      after taking note of her long experience as a teacher  in  the  school
      concerned,  we direct the respondents to  consider  the  case  of  the
      appellant for regularisation according  to  the  rules,  within  three
      months from today.


      5.       Consequently, the impugned judgment  is  set  aside  and  the
      appeal  is  disposed  of  with  the  aforementioned  observations  and
      directions, leaving the parties to bear their own costs.


                                                      .....................J
               (DALVEER BHANDARI)








                                     .....................J
                                     (DIPAK MISRA)
      New Delhi;
      February 29, 2012.