Mahmood Associates Pvt Ltd v. Union Of India And ORS.

16.03.2021 SL No. 107 Court No.24 (P.M.) WPA 11088 of 2020 Mahmood Associates Private Limited & Anr.

Vs.

Union of India & Ors.

Mr. Debasish Ghosh, Mr. Nilanjan Adhikari, Mr. Subhajit Roy ... for the petitioners Mr. Dwijadas Chakraborty ... for the Union of India Mr. T. Kumar Mondal ... for the respondent No. 6 Mr. Abhratosh Majumdar, A.A.G.

Mr. Soumitra Mukherjee, Mr. Avra Mazumder ... for the State The petitioners pray for implementation of the Order bearing No. FC 1882/WBSRDA/2E-58/2018 dated 20th November, 2018 issued by the Joint Secretary and the Joint Chief Executive Officer of the West Bengal State Rural Development Agency.

The petitioners claim that the bills raised in accordance with the said Order have not been cleared by the respondent authority till date.

The petitioners made representation before the Executive Officer of the said Agency but the representations have not been answered by the respondents till date. The learned Additional Advocate General appearing on behalf of the State respondents submits, upon instruction, that necessary directions may be passed for consideration of the representation made by the petitioners.

The instant writ petition is accordingly disposed of by directing the respondent No. 5, West Bengal State Rural Development Agency to consider the representations made by the petitioners annexed at page Nos. 34, 37 and 43 of the writ petition in consultation with the Audit Branch of the respondent No. 4, Finance Department, State of West Bengal, within a period of twelve weeks from the date of communication of a copy of this order, after giving an opportunity of hearing to the representative of the petitioners and to pass a reasoned order and communicate the same to the petitioners immediately thereafter. It is made clear that the Court has not entered into the merits of the claim of the petitioners and all points are left open to be decided by the aforesaid respondents at the time of consideration of the representations of the petitioners.

The petitioners are directed to forward a copy of the writ petition along with all annexures to the aforesaid respondents for the purpose of compliance of the order passed by this Court.

WPA 11088 of 2020 stands disposed of.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties on completion of usual formalities.

( Amrita Sinha, J.)