Madan Naskar And ORS v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

February 15, 2022 Sl. No.3 Court No.1 SG/s.biswas WPA (P) 60 of 2022 Madan Naskar and others vs.

The State West Bengal and others (Through Video Conference) Mr. Anjan Bhattacharya, Advocate ... for the petitioners Mr. Jahar Lal De, Mr. Shamim Ul Bari, Advocates ... for the State The grievance raised in the petition is in respect of misappropriation of funds by the Pradhan and the other authorities of Gopalpur Gram Panchayat under Canning-I Development Block.

Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the funds under various welfare schemes have been misappropriated and that the development works such as excavation of canal, digging of pond, plantation of trees, etc. have not been done, but the funds have been siphoned.

When the matter is taken up today, a limited prayer has been made by learned counsel for the petitioners that three representations dated 31.01.2022 have been made to the respondent No.5, District Panchayat and Rural Development Officer, South 24 Parganas, therefore a direction be issued to the said respondent to decide those representations.

Learned counsel for the State has no objection to such a limited prayer. Hence, the present petition is disposed of directing the respondent No.5 to duly

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representations dated 31.01.2022 and take an appropriate action in accordance with law after giving an opportunity of hearing to all the concerned parties.

Let this exercise be completed by respondent No.5 within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.

The petition is accordingly disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties on usual undertaking.

[Prakash Shrivastava, C.J.] [Rajarshi Bharadwaj, J.]