Form No. J(2)

In the High Court at Calcutta

Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction

Appellate Side

Present: The Hon‟ble Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya

And

The Hon‟ble Justice Uday Kumar

WPLRT 151 of 2025

Sri Ram Nath Santra and others

Vs.

The State of West Bengal and others

For the petitioners : Mr. Shyama Prasad Purkait,

Mr. Pradip Kumar Neogi,

Mr. Anirban Saha,

Mr. Achintya Kr. Biswas

For the State : Mr. Supratim Dhar, Ld. Sr. Adv.,

Mr. Ram Chandra Guchhait

Heard on : 17.09.2025 Judgment on : 17.09.2025

Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, J.:-

1. Affidavit-of-service filed today be kept on record.

2. The petitioners, under a peculiar predicament, have approached this

Court.

3. Initially, the names of the predecessors-in-interest/vendors of the

present writ petitioners were recorded in the concerned records of

rights in respect of the subject property.

4. Subsequently, however, proceedings for vesting under the provisions of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as “the 1955 Act”) were taken out and a vesting order was passed, all in the name of a deceased person.

5. The said vesting was subsequently set aside by a learned Single Judge of this Court. Leave was also granted to the said predecesso