Dev Das Tondar (D.D. Tondar) v. State of Chhattisgarh
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Chhattisgarh High Court (Bilaspur) writ petition WPS No. 6861 of 2022, neutral citation 2026:CGHC:16108, marked NAFR, digitally signed by RAMESH KUMAR VATTI; decided 08/04/2026 by Hon'ble Shri Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey. Petitioner Dev Das Tondar (D.D. Tondar), resident of Village Barbaspur, Police Station Kavardha, District Kawardha (Kabirdham), challenged two Home (Jail) Department communications - the Under Secretary's order dated 28.02.2022 (Annexure P/1) and the Director General Prisons And Correctional Services' order dated 16.09.2021 (Annexure P/3) - and sought allowance of his representation dated 22.10.2021 and application dated 15.07.2021. Respondents: State of Chhattisgarh (Secretary and Under Secretary, Home (Jail) Department) and Director General Prisons And Correctional Services, represented by Panel Lawyer Mr. AbhyudayTripathi. Counsel for petitioner: Ms. Ananya Chatterjee, holding the brief of Mr. Rishi Rahul Soni. On counsel's submission that the petition had become infructuous by efflux of time, with no objection from the State, the Court dismissed the petition as infructuous. No statutes cited, no precedents cited, no quantum involved; suitable for retrieval under keywords: infructuous petition, dismissed, jail department, Home (Jail), Chhattisgarh, writ petition.