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2026 DAILYLAW 4936 (CAL)

ADITYA KUMAR TEWARI v. STATE OF WEST BENGAL AND ORS.

WPA/28539/2025 · 2026-02-10

Smita Das De

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12 10.2.2026 Court No. 10 AGM In The High Court At Calcutta Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction Appellate Side W.P.A. 28539 of 2025 Aditya Kumar Tewari -versus State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Sanat Kumar Roy. Mr. Baidurya Ghosal. …For the Petitioner. Mr. Nirmalya Biswas. Mr. Mustafizur Rahaman. … for the State. 1. The petitioner submits that already an application has been made before the respondent no. 5 on 23rd June, 2025 for the transfer of ownership of Bus bearing No.-WB-13/2457 which has been purchased in an auction sale from Sriram Finance Limited upon payment of full consideration sum of Rs. 8,50,000/- followed by the delivery of possession. 2. The petitioner submits that till date such representation remains pending for consideration. 3. During the pendency of the writ petition, the petitioner has been requested to produce certain relevant documents before the authority concerned for effecting transfer of ownership of the vehicle in favour of the petitioner. 4. Such documents have already been submitted accordingly on 2nd February, 2026 before the respondent no. 5. 5. A copy of the same has been kept in record. 6. The State respondents submits that since the vehicle has been purchased in an auction sale, there are certain procedure to be adopted for fructifying the sale as per the provision of law. 7. The petitioner submits that the vehicle has been purchased in a private auction and not in an auction held by the Transport Authority. 8. After careful consideration of the case and on the basis of the materials available on record, I direct the respondent no. 5 to consider the representation dated 23rd June, 2025 along with the documents submitted by the petitioner on 2nd February, 2026 to arrive at a logical conclusion and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law upon affording opportunity of hearing to the petitioner and other interested person, if any within a period of six weeks and communicate such decision within a week thereafter. 9. However, it is made clear that such transfer shall be effected forthwith upon compliance of all the formalities as mandated under the statute. 10. The writ petition stands disposed of accordingly without taking any exception to the merits of the case. 11. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the learned counsel for the parties on usual undertakings. ( Smita Das De, J.) 2