Tapas Majumder v. State Of West Bengal And ANR

02.02.2023 rc/ct.no.10 Item No.69 WPA No. 25771 of 2022 Mr. Sounak Bhattacharjee Mr. Sounak Mandal ...for the petitioner Mr. Soumitra Bandyopadhyay Mr. Subhasis Bandyopadhyay ...for the State Affidavit of service filed in Court today is taken on record.

It is contended on behalf of the petitioner that though his land was acquired by the State-respondents and notice of compensation was issued by the District Collector on 5th December, 1968, no compensation has been paid to the petitioner or his predecessor in interest till date. The petitioner seeks a direction upon the concerned authority to pay such compensation in his favour at the earliest.

It appears from the letters issued by the District Compensation Officer, Baharampur, Murshidabad to the petitioners on 28th August, 2020 and 17th December, 2021 that the petitioner was requested to provide authenticated copies of relevant papers along with copies of CA Roll No. 2166 dated 6th December, 1968 in order to enable the authority to take necessary steps. Petitioner submitted a representation before the concerned authority on 24th December, 2021 in this regard annexing the CA Roll dated 6th December, 1968 and prays for a direction upon the authority to consider the representation at the earliest.

It is submitted on behalf of the State-respondents that the 2nd respondent be directed to consider the representation submitted by the petitioner in accordance with law.

In view of the above, the writ petition is disposed of directing the 2nd respondent to consider and dispose of the representation submitted by the petitioner on 24th December, 2021 within a period of two months from the date of communication of this order after affording reasonable opportunity of hearing to all the interested persons including the petitioner, in accordance with law. The decision taken by the authority shall be communicated to the petitioner within a week thereof. With the above observations and directions this writ petition is disposed of.

There shall be, however, no order as to costs. Since no affidavit is invited, the allegations contained in the petition are deemed not to be admitted. Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished to the parties upon compliance of necessary formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh,J)