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2009 Supreme(Cal) 106

High Court of Judicature at Calcutta
PRATAP KUMAR RAY & MANIK MOHAN SARKAR
Benoy Krishna Chowdhury
Versus
State of West Bengal
M.A.T. 3926 Of 2004, C.A.N. 8180 Of 2007, F.M.A. 597 Of 2005, W.P. 111 Of 2004
Decided On : 17-02-2009

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appearing Parties:T.H. Sengupta, Shamit Sanyal, Tapabrata Chakraborty, Md. Sadeque, Anupam Chatterjee, Kali Bhushan Chakraborty, Asit Kumar Chakraborty, Keshab Bhattacharji, Gouri Mukherjee, Advocates.

Judgment :

PRATAP KUMAR RAY, J.

(1) Challenging the judgment and order dated 24th September, 2004 passed in W.P. No. 6354 (W) of 2004 those two appeals have been preferred by the writ petitioner and the Co-operative Housing Society respectively. The writ petitioner- appellant breathed last and a substitution application was filed seeking substitution of the legal heirs, namely, the wife, Smt. Tara Chowdhrury and two daughters, namely, Rupa Chowdhury and Soma Chowdhury. By the order dated 4th January, 2007, Division Bench (Coram: Ashim Kumar Banerjee and Sankar Prasad Mitra,JJ.) allowed the substitution application, which read such: "The original writ petitioner approached the writ court ventilating his grievance as according to him, his fundamental right had been infringed. The learned single Judge dismissed the writ petition. Being aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the judgment and order of the learned single Judge, the appellant filed the present appeal. During the pendency of the appeal the appellant died leaving him surviving his widow and two unmarried daughters. The widow has now come up for substitution. The unmarried daughters have authorized their mother, the applicant to make the application on their behalf as would appeal from page 15 of the application. The substitution application is now being opposed by Mr. Ganguly, learned Counsel appearing for the private respondent. Mr. Ganguly submits that the application should have been made by all the heirs of the appellant. In absence of the daughters this application is not maintainable. Moreover, ninety days have passed from the date of filing of the appeal. Hence, even the prayer for substitution of the daughters as well made today, would be barred by laws of limitation. The appeal is continuation of the writ proceeding. The appellant approached this court ventilating his grievance on the ground that his fundamental right had been infringed. He was unsuccessful before the learned single Judge. He preferred the appeal. During the pendency of the appeal, he died. In this backdrop, it would not be proper for us to dismiss the application for substitution on the ground as canvassed by Mr. Ganguly. The applicant Smt. Tara Chowdhury and her two daughters namely, Rupa Chowdhury and Soma Chowdhury, all residing at no. 71, Raha Raj Ballav Street, Kolkata be substituted as appellants in place and stead of the deceased appellant. CAN 2883 of 2006 is disposed of accordingly without any order as to costs."

(2) These appeals have checkered history. The factual matrix has been detailed in short by the learned trial Judge by rejecting the writ application. Both appeals have been opposed by the respondent no.5, Smt. Krishna Mukherjee, wife of late Dr. Arup Mukherjee. Dr. Arup Mukherjee was the promoter-member of the Housing Society and was allotted with the plot no. C-1 i.e. the ground floor flat of the concerned Housing Society. On death though Smt. Krishna Mukherjee got a right to be the member of the Housing Society, same was not implemented by the Housing Society following their bye-laws and the West Bengal Co-operative Societies Act, 1983 and Rules, 1987. Learned trial Judge discussed that even the valuation of the flat was not done before canceling the claim of heritable right of Smt. Krishna Mukherjee under Section 85 of the West Bengal Co-operative Societies Act. Initially, Smt. Krishna Mukherjee raised a dispute case but failed to get any order on the main reasoning that she did not agree to be the member despite repeated letters send by the Co-operative Housing Society and on the other reasoning that one Sri Plaban Basu already got allotment of the flat by approval of Deputy Registrar, Co-operative Societies, West Bengal on the basis of the requisition send by the Housing Society. Learned trial Judge discussed that issue of allotment of flat to Sri Plaban Basu as an exercise of fraud by a positive finding that the Society misrepresented the fact by sending the papers contendi









































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