Soumen Kamila v. State Of West Bengal

ss/jks 15.02.2022 WPA 24134 of 2016 Soumen Kamila Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

(Through Video Conference) Mr. Tapan Kumar Mukherjee, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Samim-ul-Bari Mr. Somnath Naskar ... ... for the State None present for the petitioner. Writ petition is pending since 2016.

On the perusal of the record it is noticed that the petitioner has raised the grievance that while preparing the list of beneficiaries of Rural Housing Scheme under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, pradhan of the Bally -I Gram Panchayet Gosaba excluded names of hundreds of persons who belong to the special category and were entitled to the benefit of the scheme.

Record further reflects that a representation dated 17th August, 2016 has been made to the BDO, Gosaba, South 24 Parganas.

The grievance of the petitioner was that no action on the said representation has been taken.

Learned counsel for the State has no objection if the representation is duly considered by the competent authority.

Hence, we dispose of the present petition by directing the respondent no.6, Block Development Officer, Gosaba to consider the grievance raised in the

representation dated 17th August, 2016 and also conduct an enquiry, if required and thereafter do the needful in accordance with law as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

Learned counsel for the State is directed to send a copy of this order to the respondent no.6 without any delay.

Officer is directed to give a copy of the record of this case to learned counsel for the State at his own cost. (Prakash Shrivastava, C.J.) (Rajarshi Bharadwaj, J.)