Court No. 19 WPA 1375 of 2026 (265719)

28.01.2026 Subir Mondal & Ors.

(AD 8-9) Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

(S. Banerjee)

with WPA 1376 of 2026 Mr. Partha Pratim Roy Mr. Sarbananda Sanyal Mr. Samrat Chakraborty Mr. Saikat Gayen …for the petitioners Mr. Shantanu Mitra Mr. Subhabrata Das …for the State (in WPA 1375 of 2026)

Ms. Jhuma Chakraborty Ms. Rajyashree Mukherjee …for the State (in WPA 1376 of 2026)

Affidavit of service filed in Court today, is taken on record.

The undisputed fact of this case is that the property of the petitioners was requisitioned in the year 1963 under the provisions of West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1948 (‘the 1948 Act’, for short). Possession of the land in question was taken over and made over to the requiring body, i.e., the Public Works (Roads) Department on July 2, 1968. Notification under Section 4(1)(a) of the 1948 Act was issued on August 2, 1983 and the same was published in the Calcutta Gazette (Extraordinary) on August 10, 1983. No material has been produced before this Court to show that the Award was published within the time limit specified under Section 7A of the 1948 Act. Pursuant to an order passed by a coordinate Ben