Monsur Ahmed v. the State of Assam and 6 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Gauhati High Court WA/397/2022, Monsur Ahmed v. State of Assam & ors., decided 11-11-2025 by Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury. Keywords: PMGSY-I road contract Package No. AS-13-278 Karimganj; completion 5.3 of 5.43 km; pandemic delay; contract terminated December 2020; 20% penalty; cease work; termination without notice; Executive Engineer versus Chief Engineer competence; delegation of termination power; Single Judge enquiry; new concessionaire selected without indicating pending work; huge amount released on bills without work started; allegations found correct; cancellation order recalled; balance work entrusted 07.08.2025; mobilization intimation 19.08.2025; appeal withdrawn; dismissed as withdrawn. No statutes or case-law cited.
What did the court decide?
Permission granted to the appellant to withdraw the appeal; no substantive relief or monetary award pronounced by this Court.