Mohan Dandapat and Ors. v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Time-bound disposal writ petition: Mohan Dandapat & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors., W.P.A. 12845 of 2026, decided 09.07.2026 by Partha Sarathi Sen, J. Petitioners sought a mandamus against respondent no.2 to dispose of their pending Appeal No. 27 of 2025; State counsel (Nilanjan Bhattacharyya, senior counsel) fairly consented to a time frame while seeking that maintainability and jurisdiction be kept open; private respondents 7, 9 to 13 noted a Co-ordinate Bench order dated 22.01.2025 in W.P.A. 621 of 2025. The Court directed disposal of the appeal within 30 working days of communication of the server copy, leaving maintainability and jurisdiction open, and disposed of the writ petition.
What did the court decide?
Direction to the respondent no.2 authority to conclude Appeal No. 27 of 2025 positively within 30 working days from communication of the server copy of the order, with the points of maintainability and jurisdiction kept open; the respondent no.2 was directed to act on the basis of the server copy of the order.