CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Gaurang Kanth, J
Bijay Kumar Shaw & Ors. – Appellant
Versus
Howrah Municipal Corporation & Ors. – Respondent
1. The petitioners have filed the present application seeking modification of the order dated 20.06.2025 passed by the Predecessor Bench of this court, praying, in effect for an extension of the interim order granted therein.
2. The Predecessor Bench, vide order dated 20.06.2025, disposed of the writ petition with the following directions :-
“ The petitioners challenge a demolition notice scheduled for June 20, 2025, in respect of premises No. 35/9, Hamiduddin Munshi Lane, Howrah. The petitioners claim to be tenants of the said premises.
It appears that a Division Bench of this Court, by an order dated February 17, 2023, passed in MAT 204 of 2023, directed the Howrah Municipal Corporation to examine the structural stability of the building.
The Corporation, however, failed to undertake the requisite exercise, and the Division Bench directed an order of demolition on May 10, 2023. In compliance with the order dated May 10, 2023, the impugned demolition proceedings have been initiated by the Corporation.
Before this Court, respondent No. 7, the developer of the building, has submitted that he is willing and prepared to bear all necessary expenses to facilitate the structural stability ex
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