A775

21-01-2026 WPA 5107 of 2025 AKG Panchu Gopal Purkait Vs.

Ct. 15 State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Soujanya Bandyopadhyay …for the Petitioner The petitioner alleges unauthorised construction at the instance of respondent no. 9 on Plot No. 935, Mouza– Mankhand, Block–Diamond Harbour-II, District South 24 Parganas.

It is contended that respondent no. 9, by encroaching upon a portion of the land owned by the petitioner, has raised unauthorised construction without obtaining any permission from the Panchayat Authority.

The respondents are unrepresented. Let the affidavit of service filed by the petitioner be taken on record.

From the photographs annexed to the writ petition, appearing at page 26 thereof, it is evident that even at the time of filing of the writ petition, the roof of the first floor of the building had already been cast and construction on the first floor had also substantially progressed.

Having consciously permitted the construction to progress to such an advanced stage and having approached this Court only after substantial completion of the building, the petitioner cannot now be heard to contend that the construction is being carried out without a sanctioned plan.

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