Kumari Dakaprasta v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
WP(C) No.723 of 2025 | High Court of Orissa at Cuttack | decided 04.02.2025 | Judge: Aditya Kumar Mohapatra | Petitioner: Kumari Dakaprasta (adv. Kamal Behari Panda) | Opposite Parties: State of Odisha; Odisha Building And Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, Bbsr; Dist. Labour Commissioner, Rayagada (adv. U.C.Jena, ASC) | Subject: death benefit and funeral expenses of petitioner's late husband; writ of mandamus; pending representation Annexure-4 before Member Secretary/Labour Commissioner of the Construction Workers Welfare Board | Outcome: writ disposed of at admission stage; OP No.2 to consider representation within eight weeks of certified copy, pass speaking and reasoned order, communicate decision within further two weeks. No statute or precedent cited; no quantum stated.
What did the court decide?
Direction to Opposite Party No.2 (Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board) to consider the petitioner's pending representation under Annexure-4 within eight weeks from production of certified copy of the order, dispose of it by a speaking and reasoned order, and communicate the decision to the petitioner within two weeks thereafter. No direct payment/release of death benefit or funeral expenses was ordered by this Court.