Society For Protection And Preservation Of Mosque And Imambara v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

ORDER

OD-5 WPO(P)/8/2022

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION ORIGINAL SIDE SOCIETY FOR PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF MOSQUE AND IMAMBARA

VERSUS

THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL & ORS.

BEFORE:

THE HON'BLE CHIEF JUSTICE PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA THE HON'BLE JUSTICE RAJARSHI BHARADWAJ DATE : 8TH JULY, 2022 APPEARANCE:

Mr. Nilay Sengupta, Advocate Mr. Sujit Banerjee, Advocate ....for the petitioner Mr. Samrat Sen, AAG Md. T. M. Siddiqui, Advocate Mr. Nilotpal Chatterjee, Advocate . . . for the State Mr. Billawadal Bhattacharyya, ASG Mrs. Debjani Ghosal, Advocate ....for the UOI Sk. Md. Galib, Advocate Ms. Tanushree Mukherjee, Advocate .....for the Board of Auqaf The Court:- Learned counsel appearing for the Union of India has raised a preliminary objection that this petition on the original side will not lie because some of the respondents are outside the limits of original side jurisdiction of this Court and the impugned notification itself was issued from Howrah.

Learned counsel for the petitioner has agreed for conversion of the petition as petition on the appellate side.

Prayer is allowed. Office is directed to register this petition on the appellate side after completion of due formalities. We make it clear that we have not expressed any opinion about the maintainability of the petition.

List on 18th July, 2022.

(PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA, C.J.) (RAJARSHI BHARADWAJ, J.) akg/pa