Sl.20 25.02.2026 Court No.19 BP WPA 26662 of 2025 Sri Rabi Shankar Ghosh & Anr. -versus- The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Satyajit Talukdar Mr. Arindam Chatterjee ..for the respondent nos. 3 and 4 Ms. Ashmita Chakraborty ..for the State None appears for the petitioners at the time of call. No accommodation has been sought for either. None appears for the State. Ms. Chakraborty, learned advocate, who usually represents the State and is present in Court today, is requested to appear in this matter. Let the appointment of Ms. Chakraborty be regularized by the concerned authority. The petitioners have prayed for a direction upon the respondent authorities to consider the representation of the petitioners in a time bound manner. The petitioners claim to be the owner of a plot of land which was acquired. The petitioners allege that a portion of the said land has not been utilized for the purpose for which the same was acquired. The petitioners have approached various authorities praying for return of the unutilized land. In the writ petition it has been alleged that the respondent authorities have not communicated their decision on the representations submitted by the petitioners. 2 Without entering into the merits of the claim made by the petitioners in the representation dated 5th February, 2025, WPA 26662 of 2025 stands disposed of by directing the First Land Acquisition Collector, Kolkata being the 5th respondent to consider the representation of the petitioners dated 5th February, 2025 and to dispose of the same by passing a reasoned order as expeditiously as possible but preferably within a period of twelve weeks from the receipt of a server copy of this order. Since no affidavit has been called for the allegation contained in the writ petition shall not be deemed to have been admitted. There shall be however no order as to costs. Urgent certified photocopy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties expeditiously on compliance of usual legal formalities. (Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)