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NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION
NEW DELHI
 
REVISION PETITION NO. 1024 OF 2020
 
(Against the Order dated 25/02/2020 in Appeal No. 15/2019 of the State Commission West Bengal)
1. BLOCK LAND & LAND REFORM OFFICER & ANR.
...........Petitioner(s)
Versus 
1. BHUPATI RANJAN MITRA
...........Respondent(s)

BEFORE: 
 HON'BLE MR. C. VISWANATH,PRESIDING MEMBER
 HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAM SURAT RAM MAURYA,MEMBER

For the Petitioner :
Ms. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, Advocate
For the Respondent :

Dated : 29 Jun 2021
ORDER

1.      Heard Madhumita Bhattacharjee, Advocate, for the petitioners.

2.      Office has reported that this revision has been filed with delay of 170 days.  Supreme Court has directed that as a result of imposition of lockdown in the country due to pandemic Covid-19 as well as its affect throughout the country, the delay occurred during this period is liable to be condoned.  Accordingly, the delay in filing the revision is condoned.  The revision shall be deemed to have been filed within time.

3.      This revision has been filed against the order of State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, West Bengal, Circuit Bench Siliguri, dated 25.02.2020, passed in Appeal No. A-15 of 2019 (arising out of the order of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Uttar Dinajpur at Raiganj, dated 12.12.2018, passed in Consumer Complaint No. 32 of 2018), whereby District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, has allowed the complaint and directed the petitioners to pay an amount of Rs.100,000/- as compensation including for mental harassment and Rs.20,000/- as litigation costs and the appeal of the petitioners, filed from the aforesaid order, has been dismissed.

4.      The petitioners initiated a proceeding (registered as Vesting Case No. 156/9/1978) for vesting of the ancestral land recorded in the name of Brajgopal Mitra (father of the respondent) in the State and a vesting order was passed on 22.08.1981. The appeal and the revision filed by Brajgopal Mitra, against it, were dismissed. These orders were challenged in Writ LRT No. 1321 of 2002, which was ultimately allowed by Calcutta High Court, vide judgement dated 12.07.2006 and the orders of vesting were set aside. In the meantime, Brajgopal Mitra died and was inherited by his son Bhupati Ranjan Mitra. The respondent filed an application on 08.06.2011, before Block Land & Land Reform Officer, Itahar, Uttar Dinajpur (petitioner-1) for recording his name over the disputed land, in compliance of aforesaid order of High Court. Thereafter, he gave reminders dated 05.01.2012, 21.03.2012, 31.03.2012 and 10.06.2015 but nothing was done.

5.      Thereafter, Bhupati Ranjan Mitra filed an application under Right to Information Act, 2005, on 15.07.2015, seeking information of the order, passed on his application dated 08.06.2011, relating to compliance of the order of High Court. He again filed another application dated 13.08.2015 for information. Petitioner-1 informed the respondent on 31.08.2015 that his application was sent to Block Land & Land Record Officer, Kaliaganj, vide Memo No. Law/X/KLJ-09/450/15 dated 07.07.2015, for compliance. The respondent then filed an application under Right to Information Act, 2005, before Block Land & Land Record Officer, Kaliaganj on 29.09.2015, seeking information of the order passed on his application dated 08.06.2011. Block Land & Land Record Officer, Kaliaganj vide letter dated 09.10.2015, informed that the land in dispute did not situate within his territorial jurisdiction, as such, he could not pass any order on it. The respondent then moved another application before Block Land and Land Reform Officer, Itahar, Uttar Dinajpur, seeking some other information.Block Land and Land Reform Officer, Itahar, Uttar Dinajpur through his letter dated 26.11.2015, informed that although vesting case was related to 6.48 acres land but record of that case was not available with him. The respondent was not satisfied with reply and filed an appeal before

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