Ashok Kumar Agarwal v. the State of West Bengal and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Calcutta High Court, Original Side writ jurisdiction (WPO/969/2024), single Bench of Tirthankar Ghosh, J.; order dated 13 February 2025. Petitioner Ashok Kumar Agarwal had alleged resistance/hindrance, including to essential services, and apprehended recurrence; the State filed a report citing Ekbalpur P.S. GD Entry No. 325 dated 04.01.2025 recording petitioner's satisfaction with electrical repairing works. The Court confined any future police assistance to verification of obstruction of essential services upon complaint and disposed of the petition. No statute or precedent was cited; useful mainly as an example of a limited police-assistance direction in an essential-services dispute.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of; police to assist, on any complaint/information by the petitioner, only in verifying obstruction of an essential service and resulting hindrance; the State's report kept with the record.