Salik Ram Patel v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Infructuous dismissal — Salik Ram Patel v. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors., WPS No. 5609 of 2019, High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur, Single Bench, Sanjay K. Agrawal, J., decided 16.01.2026 (identifier 2026:CGHC:2765; sheet marked 'NAFR'). Petition (case number indicates 2019) against the State of Chhattisgarh through the Department of Tribal Welfare, Collector and Assistant Commissioner, Dhamtari, and private respondent Manoj Das Manikpuri, dismissed as infructuous after the State/Respondents No.1 to 3 filed a reply and the petitioner's counsel (Ms. Astha Shukla) so submitted; respondents No.1 to 3 represented by Mr. Afroz Khan, Panel Lawyer. No statutes or precedents cited; no quantum involved; no advocate recorded for respondent No.4.
What did the court decide?
In view of the submission that the writ petition had become infructuous following the reply filed by the State/Respondents No.1 to 3, the Court dismissed the writ petition as having become infructuous. No substantive issue was adjudicated and no legal proposition was laid down.