Milan Ghosh v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

14.02.2025 Item No.47 Crt.No.02 b.r. WPA 2779 of 2025 Milan Ghosh -vsThe State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Avijit Saha ...... for the petitioner.

Mr. Soumitra Bandyopadhyay, Ld. Sr.Govt. Adv. Ms. Sucheta Banerjee ..... for the State.

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

Mr.

Soumitra Bandyopadhyay, learned Senior Government Advocate with Ms. Sucheta Banerjee, learned advocate appear for the 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-2 at Page-14 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 2779 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.)