Md. Khalil Ahmed Talukdar and 80 Ors. v. the State of Assam and 5 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: dismissal for non-prosecution; 'Order No Steps'; non-appearance of petitioners' counsel; writ petition procedure/practice; Gauhati High Court; WP(C)/5861/2015; Md. Khalil Ahmed Talukdar v. State of Assam (PWD respondents). Value: purely procedural/administrative dismissal order — contains no holdings on substantive law; citable only as an instance of the no-steps dismissal practice.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition stands dismissed for non-prosecution, the petitioners' counsel having taken no steps till date and the petitioners remaining unrepresented when the matter was listed under the column 'Order No Steps'. ¶17