Chandra Nath Mondal v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

16-07-2025 Item No.8 Subrata Bhattacharyya IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side AR(C) WPA No.1967 of 2025 Chandra Nath Mondal -vsThe State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Rabindra Narayan Dutta Mr. Sibashis Ghosh Mr. Arun Kanti Bera Mr. Monoranjan Jana ...for the petitioner Mr. Tanoy Chakraborty ...for the State 1.

The petitioner seeks consideration of his application dated December 18, 2009 (Annexure P3, p.21) filed for grant of licence for foreign liquor on-shop which is pending disposal for a considerable period of time.

2.

After hearing the parties, I dispose of the writ petition directing the third respondent - District Magistrate & Collector, Howrah - to consider and decide the petitioner's application in accordance with law at the earliest but positively within a period of ninety days from the date of communication of this order.

3.

All parties are to act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court.

4.

Certified copy of this order, if applied for, shall be made available to the parties.

[Amrita Sinha, J]