Prabir Kumar Talukdar vs West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited

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2022 Supreme(Cal) 1610

ARIJIT BANERJEE, RAI CHATTOPADHYAY
Prabir Kumar Talukdar – Appellant
Versus
West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Kishore Datta, LD. Sr. Adv., Mr. Sumitra Das, Adv., Mr. Saptangsu Basu, Sr. Adv.,, Mr. V. Bhatia, Ld. APP., Mr. G. Prasad, Adv. Mr. P. K. Jewrajka, Adv. Mr. Pooja Jewrajka, Adv., Mr. Anindya Lahiri, Adv. Mr. R. Kr. Dubey, Adv. Mr. P. Sharma, Adv., In person in : Mr. Nirmal K. Agarwal, Adv., Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Sr. Adv., Mr. A. J. Sengupta, Adv, Mr. A. Pal, Adv., Mr. Indranil Nandi, Adv., Mr. D. P. Samanta, Adv. Mr. S. Konar, Adv.
For the Respondent: Mr. Jayanta Kumar Mitra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhratosh Majumdar, Ld. Sr. Adv., Mr. Jishnu Chouwdhury, Adv. Mr. Debanjan Mondal, Adv. Mr. Chayan Gupta, Adv. Mr. Deepan Sarkar, Adv. Mr. Sandip Dasgupta, Adv. Mr. Saaquib Siddiqui, Adv. Mr. Aviroop Mitra, Adv., Mr. S. N. Mookherjee, Ld. Adv. Gen., Mr. T. M. Siddiqui, Adv., Mr. Anirudha Chatterjee, Adv., Mr. R. Karmakar, Adv., Mr. Ajay Gaggar, Adv., Mr. U. Mallick, Adv., Mr. S. Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. T. Joarder, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

1. The subject matter of challenge in this bunch of appeals is a judgment and order dated May 13, 2015 whereby 61 writ petitions were disposed of. The writ petitions were filed by some of several beneficiaries of allotment of land by West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (in short “HIDCO”) in the extended Calcutta Area which has come to be known as New Town, challenging notices of cancellation of such allotments of land issued subsequently by HIDCO.

2. A brief background of the case leading to filing of the 61 writ petitions may not be out of place.

3. HIDCO was incorporated sometime in the year 1999 as a Government controlled company with the State Government holding approximately 90 per cent of its shares, with the primary object of developing a new township in the north-eastern fringes of the city of Calcutta. A huge area of land was acquired for such purpose by the State Government to enable HIDCO to achieve the aforesaid object. Compensation for such land acquisition was initially planned to be paid by the State Government but was actua

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2022 Supreme(Cal) 1610

ARIJIT BANERJEE, RAI CHATTOPADHYAYPrabir Kumar Talukdar – AppellantVersusWest Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited – Respondent

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ARIJIT BANERJEE, RAI CHATTOPADHYAY
Prabir Kumar Talukdar – Appellant
Versus
West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited – Respondent