Item- 51. sg 08-10-2026 Ct. 758 WPA 21259 of 2025 Ashish Biswas Versus The State of West Bengal & Ors. [ Mr. Goutam Misra Mr. Vaskar Pal …for the petitioner 1. The petitioner has filed the instant writ petition for a direction upon the respondent police authorities to look into the complaint dated 14th June, 2025 made before the Inspector-in-Charge of Bidhannagar Police Station (East), Kolkata. 2. The grievance of the petitioner is that, the petitioner is a retired government employee and on good faith in order to run a partnership business, paid a sum of Rs.30,40,000/- to the respondent no.5 so that she can start a business. 3. The petitioner has submitted that the private respondent no.5 has returned a sum of Rs.3,80,000/- and has failed and neglected to return the rest amount or any part thereof or any interest thereon. The petitioner alleges that the private respondent has cheated the petitioner by making deceitful representation. The petitioner submits that the despite a complaint dated 14th June, 2025, the concerned police station has failed and neglected to look into the complaint lodged by the petitioner. The learned Advocate for the petitioner also relies upon the document executed by the respondent no.5 on 15th October, 2023 where she admitted receipt of a loan of Rs.23 lakh from the petitioner and assured to return the same by 23rd January, 2024. 2 4. The respondent no.5 is unrepresented. 5. Without going into the merits of the allegations made by the petitioner, the instant writ application is disposed of by directing the Officer-in-Charge of the Bidhannagar Police Station to look into the matter and take steps in accordance with law. 6. It is, however, clarified that this Court has not gone into the defence of the private respondent to the allegation of cheating or otherwise. All points of defence on merits and /or on law shall be open to be agitated by the parties in any proceeding that may arise out of the present dispute. 7. WPA 21259 of 2025 is, accordingly, disposed of without any order as to costs. 8. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance of all requisite formalities. (Anuj Singh, J.)