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GAHC010123562025

2026:GAU-AS:5916

THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

Case No. : WP(C)/3215/2025

SANDHYA CHOREI

W/O JOYTINGIR CHOREI, R/O A VILL- RAILWAY COLONY, KARIMGANJ,

P.S.- KARIMGANJ AND DIST- SRIBHUMI, ASSAM, PIN-788710

VERSUS

THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 4 ORS.

TO BE REPRESENTED BY THE COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY TO THE

GOVT. OF ASSAM, REVENUE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

2:THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER

SRIBHUMI

DIST- SRIBHUMI

ASSAM

PIN-788710

3:THE DISTRICT REGISTRAR

SRIBHUMI

P.O.

P.S.- KARIMGANJ

DIST- SRIBHUMI

ASSAM

4:THE CIRCLE OFFICER

SRIBHUMI REVENUE CIRCLE

P.O. AND P.S.- KARIMGANJ

DIST- SRIBHUMI

ASSAM

PIN-788712

5:THE SUB REGISTRAR

SRIBHUMI

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P.O. AND P.S.- KARIMGANJ

DIST- SRIBHUMI

ASSAM

PIN-78871

Advocate for the Petitioner : MR H R CHOUDHURY,

Advocate for the Respondent : SC, REVENUE, GA, ASSAM

BEFORE

HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJAN MONI KALITA

ORDER

Date : 29-04-2026

Heard Mr. H. R. Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard

Ms. P. R. Mahanta, learned Junior Government Advocate appearing for

respondent No. 1 as well as Mr. B. J. Talukdar, learned Additional Senior

Government Advocate appearing for respondent Nos. 2 to 5.

2. The petitioner’s case, in a nutshell, is that the petitioner has executed a

Sale Agreement with a buyer and applied for Composite Land Transfer vide

Acknowledgement No. NOC/21/32280/2024, dated 09.02.2024. It is contended

that, till the filing of the instant writ petition, the said application had not been

disposed of by the respondent authorities, although the stipulated period of 45

days for such disposal had already elapsed. It is the further contended that the

petitioner approached the respondent authorities and was informed that, due to

differences in the religious identities of the seller and the buyer, her application

has not been disposed of till that time. Being aggrieved, the petitioner

approached this Court by filing the instant writ petition.

3. During the pendency of the instant writ petition, the petitioner filed an

additional affidavit, wherein she brought on record a digital report from Sewa

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Setu, a portal for submission of such applications. From the report, it transpires

that the petitioner’s application was rejected by the respondent authorities on

27.06.2025, stating that, as per the report submitted by the LRA, the NOC could

not be approved.

4. An affidavit-in-opposition has been filed by respondent No. 2, i.e., the

District Commissioner, Shribhumi District, Shribhumi, wherein a stand has been

taken that, as per the report submitted by the LR Staff, there is a mismatch in

the documents attached with NOC/21/32280/2024, to the effect that the

purchaser’s name, Raju Roy, as mentioned in the affidavit, did not match with

the buyer and seller and that the land revenue receipt submitted was not up to

date. In view of the aforesaid discrepancies, the said NOC was rejected.

5. Mr. Choudhury, learned counsel for the petitioner, submits that the

stipulated time for the service to be delivered in the instant case is 45 days,

however, in spite of the lapse of the aforesaid 45 days, the services as prayed

for have not been delivered to the petitioner. He further submits that the

rejection of the petitioner’s application for Composite Land Transfer was carried

out by the respondent authorities in violation of the stipulated time and no

reasons for such rejection were mentioned in the said rejection order. Therefore,

he submits that such rejection, without assigning any reasons, amounts to a

violation of the provisions of the Assam Right to Public Services Act, 2012

(hereinafter referred to as the “Act of 2012”). Accordingly, he submits that a

direction should be issued to the respondent authorities to consider the

application so filed by the petitioner afresh.

6. On the other hand, Mr. Talukdar, learned Additional Senior Government

Advocate appearing for respondent Nos. 2 to 5, submits that since the rejection

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has already been