Chandan Purkait And ORS. v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

S/L 12 07.08.2025 Court. No. 19 Suvayan WPA 10843 of 2025 Chandan Purkait & Ors.

Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Tapash K. Bhattacharya Mr. Aviroop Bhattacharya ...for the petitioners.

Mr. Dipanjan Datta Mr. Sayan Datta ...for the State.

1. The affidavit-of-service as filed today on behalf of the writ petitioners is taken on record.

2. At the very outset Mr. Bhattacharya, learned Advocate appearing on behalf of the writ petitioners submits before this Court that he undertakes to file requisite Court fees for 13 numbers of writ petitioners within two working days from today.

3. By filing the instant writ petition the writ petitioners have prayed for issuance of appropriate writ/writs against the respondents/authorities more specifically against the respondent no.

3/authority for consideration of the representations copies of which have been annexed at page nos. 36 to 39 of the instant writ petition.

4. It is submitted by Mr. Bhattacharya that it is the specific case of the writ petitioners that the land of the writ petitioners particulars of which have mentioned in paragraph no. 2 of the instant writ petition have been acquired by the respondents/authorities, however, as

on this day no compensation was disbursed for such acquisition.

5. Mr. Datta, learned Advocate appearing on behalf of the respondents/State in his usual fairness submits before this Court that the respondent no. 3/authority may be directed to consider the representations of the writ petitioners in accordance with law.

6. In view of such, this Court while disposing the instant writ petition directs the respondent no. 3/authority to consider the representations of the writ petitioners copies of which have been annexed at page nos. 36 to 39 of the instant writ petition in accordance with law and after giving due chance of hearing to the writ petitioners and/or their authorized representatives shall pass a reasoned order and forthwith communicate the same to the writ petitioners preferably by mail, if the mail details of the writ petitioners are provided to him at the time of hearing.

7. The entire exercise as indicated in the foregoing paragraph is to be completed within 120 working days from the date of communication of the server copy of this order.

8. The time limit as fixed by this Court is mandatory and peremptory.

9. Liberty is given to the learned Advocate-on-Record for the writ petitioners to communicate the server copy of this order to the respondent no. 3/authority.

10. The respondent no. 3/authority is hereby directed to act on the basis of the server copy of this order.

11. Before parting with, it is made clear that since affidavits have not been called for the allegations made in the instant writ petition are deemed to have been denied.

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

13. Department is directed to place the file before this Court if the requisite Court fee as undertaken by Mr. Bhattacharya is not paid within due time for passing appropriate order.

14. Urgent Xerox certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all necessary formalities.

(Partha Sarathi Sen, J.)