Anubha Poria v. State Of West Bengal And ANR.

April 10, 2025 Sl. No.18 Court No.19 s.biswas WPA 5313 of 2025 Anubha Poria vs.

The State of West Bengal and another Mr. Asit Kr. Bhattacharya ... for the petitioner Mr. Chandi Charan De, AGP Mr. Anirban Sarkar ... for the State

1. The affidavit of service as filed on behalf of the petitioner is taken on record.

2. On perusal of the entire papers placed before this court, it reveals that it is the case of the writ petitioner that under cover of Memo dated 06.03.2019 the respondent no.2 authority communicated the writ petitioner that notice for inviting e-auction for the Sand Mining Block being MDASB-11 with Auction Id:2019_WB_1346 has been published on 30.01.2019.

3. Mr.

Bhattacharya, learned counsel for the petitioner, at this juncture draws attention of this court to page no.10 of the instant writ petition. It is submitted that the writ petitioner on 25.03.2019 deposited a sum of Rs.3,54,800/- towards full bid amount and the same was duly communicated to the respondent no.2 authority. It is submitted by Mr. Bhattacharya that on 17.08.2021 the writ petitioner wrote a letter to the respondent no.2 authority for grant of extension

of letter of intent (LOI, in short) for obtaining environmental clearance.

4. On careful consideration of the entire materials as placed before this court and after hearing the learned counsel for the writ petitioner and the learned counsel for the respondent State, this court while disposing of the instant writ petition, directs the respondent no.2 i.e. the Additional District Magistrate & the District Land and Land Reforms Officer, Paschim Medinipur, to consider the representation of the writ petitioner being letter dated 17.08.2021 after giving opportunity of hearing to the writ petitioner and dispose of the same by passing a reasoned order within a period of 30 working days from the date receipt of the server copy of the instant order.

5. It is further ordered that the respondent no.2 shall communicate his reasoned order to the writ petitioner preferably by email, if email details is provided at the time of hearing by the writ petitioner. Liberty is given to the writ petitioner to communicate the server copy of the order to the respondent no.2.

6. With the aforementioned observation, the instant writ petition is disposed of.

7. All the parties shall act on the basis of the server copy of the order.

(Partha Sarathi Sen, J.)