Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited v. the State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Single-issue writ disposal order. Keywords: SARFAESI Act 2002 Section 14; pending application beyond statutory outer limit; District Magistrate Birbhum; financial institution; Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited; WPO/52/2024; High Court at Calcutta writ jurisdiction original side; disposal directed within four weeks; no order as to costs. Useful to advocates seeking precedents where a writ court fixes a time-limit on an authority to act on a Section 14 SARFAESI request rather than adjudicating the underlying application.
What did the court decide?
Direction to respondent no. 2, the District Magistrate, Birbhum, to dispose of the petitioner's pending application under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 as expeditiously as possible, positively within four weeks from date; no order as to costs. ¶13