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IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA
SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYYA, UDAY KUMAR
P. C. Chandra Financial Services Private Limited – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.
1. The present writ petition arises out of a proceeding initiated on the application of one Arun Chandra Khanna (since deceased), in his capacity as a partner of a partnership firm namely M/s Khanna & Sons, for declaration that the disputed property is a Thika Tenancy Property and the said partnership firm is the Thika Tenant/Returnee. During the pendency in the said proceeding, the said Arun Chandra Khanna died, leaving behind the respondent nos.6 to 8 herein as his heirs and legal representatives, who filed an application for getting substituted as the applicants in the proceeding. The Thika Controller refused such application by an order dated March 27, 2014, which was challenged by them by filing an Original Application before the West Bengal Land Reforms and Tenancy Tribunal. The First Bench of the Tribunal, by the impugned order dated July 26, 2024, allowed such application, against which the present writ petition has been preferred.
2. Learned senior counsel for the petitioner argues that the partnership firm being unregistered, the application was not maintainable in the first place. As such, the substitution application was rightly reje
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