Lalita Das and 3 Ors. v. the State of Assam and 5 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Short disposal order: writ petition dismissed as infructuous on counsel's submission. Gauhati High Court; WP(C)/3234/2022; decided 04.05.2026 by Justice Manish Choudhury. Petitioners: Lalita Das, Dilip Baishya, Prabin Ch. Mali, Hari Gopal Sarkar (Kamrup district, Assam). Respondents: State of Assam; Secretary and Director, Welfare of Plain Tribes and Backward Classes Department; Deputy Commissioner, Amingaon, Kamrup; SDO (C), Rangia; Sub-Divisional SC Development Board, Rangia; Department of Social Justice and Empowerment; private respondents Prakash Namasudra and Pradip Das @Pramod Das. Counsel: M.D. Chowdhury and N. Baruah for petitioners; M. Barman (Junior Government Advocate), R.M. Das (SC, SJ&ED) and R. Dhar (SC, WPT&BC) for respondents. No statutory provisions, precedents, or monetary amounts involved.
What did the court decide?
Accepting the submission of counsel for the petitioners that the subject-matter of the writ petition had become infructuous, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous.