Somenath Sarkar And ANR. v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

12.02.2025 Item No.35 Crt.No.02 b.r. WPA 1970 of 2025 Somenath Sarkar & Anr.

-vsThe State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Avijit Saha ...... for the petitioners.

Mr. Somnath Ganguly, Ld. AGP Mr. Pariskshit Goswami ..... for the State.

Mr. Avijit Saha, learned Advocate appears for the petitioners.

Mr. Pariskshit Goswami, learned State Advocate led by Mr. Somnath Ganguly, learned Additional Government Pleader appears State-respondents.

The sole grievance of the petitioner is that the proceeding under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 is pending for long before the jurisdictional L.A. Collector, annexure P-3 at Page-16 to the writ petition. In view of the above, subject to the point of limitation, the jurisdictional L.A. Collector shall consider the application and send it before the jurisdictional L.A. Judge upon verification of all the records and documents in accordance with law positively within a period of six weeks from the date of communication of this order.

After receiving the reference, the jurisdictional L.A. Judge shall dispose of the proceeding as expeditiously as possible in accordance with law. All points are kept open. Since affidavits are not called for, the allegations made in this writ petition are deemed not to have been admitted by the respondents.

With the above observations and directions, this writ petition, WPA 1970 of 2025 stands disposed of, without any order as to costs.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties expeditiously, on compliance of usual legal formalities.

(Aniruddha Roy, J.)