15.09.2026 Sl. No. 8 (DL) Ct.No.19 (Susanta) (Bench I.D. 266052) WPA 17834 of 2026 Hoqueful Rahman & Ors. Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Lalit Mohan Mahata Mr. Aditya Bikram Mahata, Mr. Amit Bikram Mahata, Mr. Anirban Das, …for the petitioners. Mr. Tapas Kumar Sil, Ms. Ankana Sarkar, …for the State. 1. Affidavit of service as filed by the petitioners is taken on record. 2. The writ petitioners and the respondent State are represented by their respective learned advocates. 3. By filing the instant writ petition, the writ petitioners have prayed for issuance of appropriate writ/writs against the respondent authority more specifically against the respondent no. 2 authority, which is wrongly typed as respondent no. 4 in the prayer of the writ petition, commanding him to dispose of the representations of the petitioners, copies of which have been annexed at page 63-96 of the instant writ petition. 4. At the time of hearing, Mr. Mahata, learned advocate appearing on behalf of the writ petitioners 2 submits before this Court that the present writ petitioners are aggrieved with the award dated 29.09.2023 notices of which were sent on 12.11.2023 and the payment was disbursed on May 06, 2025. 5. It is submitted that since the writ petitioners were aggrieved with the said award they approached the respondent no. 2 authority under Section 64 of the Act XXX of 2013 for making reference to the authority but in vain. 6. Learned advocate appearing on behalf of the respondent State however submits that the respondent no.2 authorities is justified in not considering the representation of the writ petitioners since the prayer for reference has been made beyond the statutory period. 7. On careful consideration of the materials as placed before this Court and after hearing the learned advocates appearing on behalf of the contending parties, this Court while disposing of the instant writ petition directs the respondent no. 2 authority to consider the representations of the writ petitioners, copies of which have been annexed at page nos.63- 92 of the instant writ petition in accordance with law and after giving due opportunity of hearing to the writ petitioners and/or their authorized representatives shall pass reasoned order/orders and shall forth with communicate the same to the writ petitioners. 3 8. The entire exercise as indicated hereinabove shall have to be completed within 90 working days from the date of communication of the server copy of this order. 9. Liberty is given to the learned advocate-on-record for the writ petitioners to communicate the server copy of this order together with the copies of all the representations as have been annexed with the instant writ petition to the respondent no. 2 authority and the respondent no. 2 authority is directed to act on the server copy of this order. 10. The time limit as fixed by this Court is peremtory and mandatory. 11. With the aforementioned observation WPA 17834 of 2026 is disposed of. 12. Before parting with it is, however, made clear that while disposing of the instant writ petition this Court has not gone into the merits of the representations of the petitioners and thus, all points are kept open for the adjudication by the respondent no. 2 authority. 13. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties subject to compliance with all requisite formalities. (Partha Sarathi Sen , J.)