Joydeb Saha and Anr. v. Kolkata Municipal Corporaton and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
C.O. 228/2024 Joydeb Saha v. Kolkata Municipal Corporation; revisional application vs Special Officer (Building) demolition order; disposed 20.02.2024 (Shampa Sarkar, J.) in favour of alternative remedy of appeal before Municipal Building Tribunal; liberty to appeal with stay application within two weeks; KMC restrained from demolition for eight weeks, free to proceed if no interim stay; no opinion on merits; Tribunal to decide entire matter; appeal accepted without certified copy; no costs.
What did the court decide?
Liberty to the petitioner to prefer an appeal with an application for stay before the learned Municipal Building Tribunal within two weeks of communication of this order; eight-week restraint on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation's demolition of the concerned structure, failing interim stay within that period the Corporation free to proceed in accordance with law; return of the annexed Special Officer (Building)'s order copy to the Advocate-on-record upon furnishing a photocopy; Tribunal to accept filings without certified copy; no order as to costs.