Gouri Shankar Mishra And ORS v. Susan George And ANR

Court No. 6 CO 2070 of 2025 (265719) 23.06.2025 Gouri Shankar Mishra & Ors.

Vs.

Susan George & Anr.

(AD 10) (S. Banerjee) Mr. Amitava Pain Mr. Subhrangshu Datta ...for the petitioners This application under Article 227 of the Constitution of India is at the instance of the plaintiffs praying for a direction upon the learned Additional District Judge, in-Charge, 5th Court at Paschim Medinipur to dispose of Title Suit No. 1 of 2005 expeditiously.

Mr. Pain, learned advocate appearing for the petitioners submits that May 6, 2025 was fixed for hearing of the petitions dated February 6, 2024 and July 10, 2024 and for clarification. He further submits that the aforesaid petitions were heard-inpart on April 17, 2025. He submits that the next date has been fixed on October 29, 2025. He prays for a direction to be passed upon the learned trial judge to take up the hearing of the petitions on the next date fixed and to dispose of the same as expeditiously as possible.

In view of the order sought and proposed to be passed, there is no necessity to direct issuance of any notice upon the opposite parties. However, the learned advocate-on-record of the petitioners shall be obliged to forward a copy of this application along with this order, upon the opposite parties or upon the learned advocate representing the opposite parties before the learned trial judge.

In the light of the submissions made by the learned advocate appearing for the petitioners, CO 2070 of 2025 stands disposed of by requesting the learned Additional District Judge, in-Charge, 5th Court at Paschim Medinipur to take up the hearing of the applications on the next date fixed, i.e., on October 29, 2025 and to make an endeavour to dispose of the same as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of eight weeks from the next date fixed, without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties.

(Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)