Kuber Tie Up (Pvt.) Ltd. and Ors. Vs the State of West Bengal and Ors. — Calcutta HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Kuber Tie Up (Pvt.) Ltd. and Ors. Vs the State of West Bengal and Ors. — Calcutta HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Writ petition disposed of with a direction to the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal to dispose of O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) positively within September 26, 2025, without unnecessary adjournments, preponing the next hearing date upon notice to both parties if necessary; compliance permitted on server copy; petitioners to communicate server copy to the tribunal; no order as to costs.

Issue for consideration

Whether the tribunal's inordinate pendency of O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT), despite this court's earlier direction dated September 26, 2022, warranted a fresh time-bound direction for disposal of the pending O.A.

Court's answer

This court disposed of W.P.L.R.T 119 of 2025 by directing the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal to dispose of O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) positively within September 26, 2025, without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either party and by preponing the next date fixed for hearing, upon notice to both parties, if necessary.

Ratio / Principle

For purposes of compliance, the tribunal and all parties shall act on the server copy of the order without insisting upon prior production of a certified copy, and the petitioners shall communicate the server copy to the tribunal as soon as it is available on the official website of the court.

Key takeaways

There will be no order as to costs.ratio¶16

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Writ petition (W.P.L.R.T 119 of 2025) by Kuber Tie Up (Pvt.) Ltd. and others complaining that O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) had been kept pending inordinately by the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal despite this court's earlier direction dated September 26, 2022, whereby the tribunal was asked to take up the matter on December 5, 2022 and endeavour to dispose of it within two months. Noting that the matter remained pending almost three years later (August 2025), the Bench (Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J. and Uday Kumar, J., decided 6 August 2025) disposed of the writ by directing the tribunal to dispose of O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) positively within September 26, 2025, without granting unnecessary adjournments and by preponing the next hearing date upon notice to both parties, if necessary. Compliance was permitted on server copy without certified copy; the petitioners were to communicate the server copy to the tribunal; no order as to costs.

6^th August, 2025 (AK) 07

W.P.L.R.T 119 of 2025

Kuber Tie Up (Pvt.) Ltd. and others Vs. The State of West Bengal and others

Mr. Bratin Kumar Dey Ms. Anjana Banerjee

...for the petitioners.

Mr. Sk. Md. Galib Ms. Munmun Ganguly ...for the State-respondents. Mr. Md. Shahjahan Hossain Ms. Sanjita Sultana Mr. Prithwiraj Biswas

...for the private respondent.

1. Affidavit-of-service filed in court today be kept on record.

The grievance of the petitioners is that O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) has been kept pending inordinately by the tribunal, despite a previous direction of this court dated September 26, 2022, whereby the tribunal was requested to take up the matter on the next date fixed, that is, on December 5, 2022 and to endeavour to dispose of the same within two months therefrom, after affording an opportunity of hearing to all the parties and by recording proper reasons in accordance with law.

However, unfortunately, even in the teeth of the said request of the coordinate Bench dated

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September 26, 2022, the matter is still pending although we are in the month of August, 2025, that is, almost three years thereafter.

Accordingly, WPLRT 119 of 2025 is disposed of by directing the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal to dispose of O.A. 663 of 2012 (LRTT) positively within September 26, 2025, without granting any unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties, by preponing the next date fixed for hearing of the same, upon notice to both parties, if necessary.

The tribunal and all parties, for the purpose of compliance, shall act on the server copy of this order without insisting upon prior production of a certified copy.

The petitioners shall communicate a server copy of this order to the tribunal as soon as the same is available on the official website of this court.

There will be no order as to costs.

Urgent photostat copies of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all requisite formalities.

(Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.)

(Uday Kumar, J.)