Shri.Tabrez Hussain v. the Andaman and Nicobar Administration and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Calcutta High Court, Circuit Bench at Port Blair; WPA/209/2025; decided April 20, 2026 by Smita Das De, J. Subject terms: demolition order; Order No. 5093 dated 01.08.2017; Port Blair Municipal Council; Secretary; non-implementation/execution kept in abeyance; appeal before appellate authority; stay of demolition order; ex parte order; opportunity of hearing; prima facie case; judicial direction fixing eight-week timeline for disposal of pending appeal; reasoned order; communication of decision within one week; disposal of writ petition without going into merits; Andaman & Nicobar Administration. Useful for searches on timelines imposed on appellate authorities and interim intervention where execution of municipal demolition orders stalls pending appeal.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of without going into the merits; appellate authority directed to decide the pending appeal within eight weeks of communication of the order by a reasoned order in accordance with law after affording hearing to the petitioner, respondent No.3 and other stakeholders, and to communicate the decision within one week thereafter.