Babita Basu Roy v. State Of West Bengal & ORS

03.8 W.P.A. 1126 of 2020 Babita Basu Roy -VersusState of West Bengal & Ors.

Ct.

No.

akb Mr. Subhasish Pachchal ...For the Petitioner Mr. Amal Kumar Sen, learned A.G.P.

Mr. Lal Mohan Basu ...For the State Respondents This is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India wherein the writ petitioner is aggrieved by the inaction on the part of the respondent authorities in accepting the road tax of the car belatedly. The case of the petitioner is that the road tax of the said car has expired in June 2019 and subsequently the Authorities have not accepted the payment of the road tax.

This writ petition was filed in the month of January, 2020 and has come up in the list for the first time and taken up for hearing.

I have heard learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the parties and perused the materials placed on record. This writ petition is disposed of with a direction upon respondent No. 5 to accept the payment of road tax of the said car from the petitioner along with the 50% of the road tax as penalty. This payment is to be made by the petitioner within a period of 10 (ten) days from date. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of.

Since, no affidavit-in-opposition has been called for, the allegations made in the writ petition are deemed to have not been admitted by the respondents.

I, however, observe that the above decision is made

in the peculiar facts and circumstances keeping the Covid Pandemic in mind.

There will be no order as to costs.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties, upon compliance of all formalities, on priority basis.

( Shekhar B. Saraf, J.)