MAHARANI MPNDAL BISWAS Vs. STATE OF WEST BANGAL
LAWS(CAL)-1999-8-19
HIGH COURT OF CALCUTTA
Decided on August 30,1999

MAHARANI MPNDAL, BISWAS Appellant
VERSUS
STATE OF WEST BENGAL Respondents

JUDGEMENT

S.B.Sinha, ACJ. - (1.) This appeal is directed gainst a judgment and order dated 26-3-1999 passed by a learned Single Judge of this court whereby and whereunder the writ application filed by the appellant herein was summarily dismissed on the ground that the dispute involved is private in nature.
(2.) The fact that the petitioner and the private respondents have been fighting over a permises for a long time is not in dispute. The contention of Mrs. Mukherjee is that the learned trial Judge erred in dismissing the application in limine as the main relief prayed for in the writ application was directed against the Police Authorities. The prayers made by the petitioner in the writ application, inter alia, are :- (a) A writ of and/or in the nature of Mandamus do issue commanding the respondents and each of them, whether by themselves, their servents, agents, sub-ordinates or otherwise howsoever to act in accordance with law and forthwith; (i) Prevent the commission of cognizable and non-cognizable offences by the private respondent Nos. 6 and 7 herein and their associates in or around the petitioner's said Plot No. 133, within Mouza 107 at Natna, P.S. Tehatta in the District of Nadia and to see that the said private respondent Nos. 6 and 7 and their associates do not interfere, obstruct and/or impair the petitioner's fundamental rights to enter into the said petitioner's place of residence and/or reconstruct the tioner's dwelling house thereat and/or to live peacefully at the said place of residence with the petitioner's daughters thereat in any manner whatsoever; (ii) Post a police picket at the petitioner's said place of residence and afford adequate police protection to the petitioner and her daughters thereat so that the petitioner and her daughters are able to exercise their fundamental rights to life and liberty enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India including the right to live with dignity and honour therein.
(3.) Mrs. Mukherjee, the learned Counsel submits that despite orders passed by the Civil Court and despite repeated orders passed under Section 144(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure by the Magistrate, it had not been possible for her client to enter into her own premises. The learned Counsel contends that keeping in view the decision of Kanoria Jute & Industries Ltd. & Anr. v. The Home Secretary, Government of West Bengal & Ors.1, and CPA Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd., Employees' Union & Ors. v. CPA Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. & Ors2, the writ application was maintainable.;


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