B.C. Paul And Sons And ANR. v. The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation And ORS.

23.04.2025 Sl. No. 40 Ct No. 3 SG WPA 6566 of 2025 B.C Paul & Sons and Anr.

Vs The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation & Ors.

Ms. Sanghamitra Nandy.

...for the petitioners Mr. Sirsanya Bandopadhyay, Mr. Arka Kumar Nag, Mr. Tirthankar Dey.

...for BMC 1.

The present writ petition has been preferred seeking disbursal of a sum of Rs. 18,35,559/- (including GST and Cess) being the alleged outstanding dues arising from Work Order No.

1319/PWD (BMC) dated 23.02.2021, along with the release of the Earnest Deposit amounting to Rs. 33,191/-.

2.

It is the case of the petitioners that the respondent corporation issued work order dated 23.02.2021 in favour of the petitioners and they have duly executed the assign work within the stipulated time. Thereafter the Executive Engineer PWD by his memo no. 873/PWD/BMC dated 12.08.2022 issued completion certificate in favour of the petitioners stating that the petitioners have completed the work within the stipulated time under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that despite admitting the said amount the respondent authority has failed to release the said amount.

4.

Under such circumstances, the petitioners had submitted a representation dated 21.02.2025 seeking expeditious redressal.

5.

Learned counsel for the respondent corporation submits that they are ready and willing to decide the petitioners' representation dated 21.02.2025 within a time bound manner.

6.

In view of the above submission, this court directs the respondent corporation to decide the petitioners' representation dated 21.02.2025 within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order after affording an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioners by way of a speaking order. 7.

With the above observation, present writ petition is disposed of.

8.

Since no affidavits have been filed by the respondents, the allegations made in the writ petition shall not be deemed to have been admitted.

9.

There shall be no order as to costs.

10.

Let urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties on usual undertaking.

(Gaurang Kanth, J.)