IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE

28 21.3.2025 Sc Ct. no.2 WPA 16325 OF 2017 ------ --------

Amitava Das Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Amitava Das …. Petitioner appears in person Mr. Soumitra Bandyopadhyay Mr. Srinath Singha Roy.

…. For the Respondent Nos.1 to 3, 7 & 8 Mr. Satyajit Talukdar Mr. Arindom Chatterjee.

…. For the Respondent Nos. 4 to 6/KMDA The petitioner appears in person.

Mr. Soumitra Bandyopadhyay, learned Senior Government Advocate with Mr. Srinath Singha Roy, learned State advocate appears for the respondent nos.

1 to 3, 7 and 8, the acquiring body.

Mr. Satyajit Talukdar, learned advocate appears for the respondent nos. 4 to 6, KMDA, the requiring body.

The relevant facts are that, acquisition of the subject land is admitted. There is no challenge to that neither was there any challenge contemporaneously. The acquisition process was initiated during the period 1977 till 1978 under two land acquisition cases. The father of the petitioner, Bimal Kumar Das, since deceased, was the actual land loser.

The document at pages 30-31 to the writ petition shows that, an award was declared in favour of the petitioner’s deceased fathe