Maharani Maity v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

D/L- 179 10/03/2026 Ct. No.-19 Aritra WPA 4424 of 2026 Maharani Maity Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Sujit Bhunia ....for the petitioner Mr. Sanjoy Mukherjee Mr. Pradip Paul Mr. Arghadip Das ....for the respondent Nos.2 & 3 Mr. Pradeep Kumar Roy, Sr. Adv.

....for the added respondent Affidavit of service filed in Court today is taken on record.

On the prayer of the learned advocate for the petitioner, leave is granted to the learned advocate on record of the petitioner to amend the cause title by adding the Assistant Registrar of Co-operative Societies as party respondent in the writ petition.

Let the amendment be carried out here and now. A copy of the writ petition has been served upon Mr. Roy.

The petitioner claims to be a member of the respondent No.2/Society. The petitioner alleges that the respondent authorities is not allowing the petitioner to withdraw any amount from the bank account maintained by the petitioner with the respondent No.2/Society.

Mr. Mukherjee, learned advocate appears for the respondent Nos.2 and 3. He submits that a serious allegation of fraud has been made in connection with operation of the accounts for which the respondent authorities have entrusted the CID Department of the Government of West Bengal to investigate the said complaint. He submits that no amount can be allowed to withdrawn from the account during the pendency of such investigation.

The learned advocate appearing for the petitioner submits that though a representation has been submitted by the petitioner before the respondent No.3, but no decision on such representation has been communicated to the petitioner till date.

Mr. Mukherjee submits that the decision on the representation shall be communicated to the petitioner within the time limit as may be fixed by this Court. Without entering into the merits of the allegations contained in the representation dated March 3, 2023 and April 6, 2025, WPA 4424 of 2026 stands disposed of by directing the respondent No.3 to consider the said representations and to dispose of the same by passing a reasoned order after affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. The entire exercise shall be completed by the respondent No.3 as expeditiously as possible but positively within a period of 6 weeks from the date of

receipt of a server copy of this order along with the copy of the aforesaid representations.

There will be no order as to costs.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)