Shyam Pal Tamrakar v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Infructuous dismissal of a writ petition by the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur on 02.05.2025 (Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad). Case: WPC No. 1371 of 2022; petitioner Shyam Pal Tamrakar; respondents include the State of Chhattisgarh (Department of Urban and Rural Administration), Collector Rajnandgaon, Nagar Panchayat Gandai through its Chief Municipal Officer, and councilors of Wards 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 15 of Nagar Panchayat Gandai. Counsel: Shikhar Agnihotri (for Awadh Tripathi) for the petitioner; Santosh Bharat, P.L. for the State. Dismissal was on the joint position that the petition had become infructuous by efflux of time, with no objection from the State. No statute, precedent, issue, or monetary amount appears in the order.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition is dismissed as having rendered infructuous, the learned counsel for the petitioner having submitted that by efflux of time the petition had become infructuous and the learned State counsel having no objection.