M/S. Neogi Construction And Company And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

12.09.2025 Sl. No. 19 Ct No. 3 SG WPA 16447 of 2025 M/s. Neogi Construction and Company & Anr.

Vs The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Sobhan Majumder.

...for the petitioner Mr. Anindya Sundar Chatterjee.

...for Municipality Mr. Abhishek Gupta.

...for the State 1.

Affidavit-of-service is taken on record.

2.

The petitioners have preferred the present writ petition being aggrieved by the inaction on the part of the respondent Municipality in not releasing the admitted amount due to him on account of execution of construction work allotted to him vide work order being Memo No.

3608/17-479/2024-25 dated 25.10.2024.

3.

It is the case of the petitioners that respondentMunicipality allotted the abovementioned work to the petitioners vide the abovementioned work order. The said work order was completed on 11.01.2025 and the completion certificate was issued on 10.07.2025. Despite the issuance of the completion certificate, the admitted bill amount has still not been paid to the petitioners.

4.

Perusal of the file reveals that the petitioners have not preferred any representation before the respondent-Municipality.

5.

Learned Counsel for the respondentMunicipality submits that they are ready and willing to treat the present writ petition as a representation and shall pass a speaking order.

6.

Learned Counsel for the petitioners states that the petitioners shall be satisfied if the same is decided within a time bound manner.

7.

In view of the submissions made by the learned Counsel for the parties, this Court directs the respondent-Municipality to treat the present writ petition as a representation and decide the same, strictly in accordance with law, after affording an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioner, within a period of six weeks from the date of communication of this order, by way of a speaking order.

8.

With the above direction, the present writ petition stands disposed of.

9.

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

10.

There shall be no order as to costs.

11.

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

(Gaurang Kanth, J.)