RAJIB DEBNATH Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Apropos this writ petition no. 18261(W) of 2017, I had the opportunity to extensively hear the matter on February 13 of this year, with the directions that note of arguments be filed by both parties to this lis. In spite of the matter being adjourned for three weeks, a period of lull ensued owing to the disruption caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown that was imposed nationwide on March 24, 2020. When this Court reconvened on December 7, 2020 and the matter was taken up for consideration, the hearing stood concluded in the matter.

(2.) The facts of this case, in so far as they are material to this writ petition, is circumscribed within a narrow compass and is encapsulated as follows:

(3.) Mr. Saha Roy, the learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that the petitioner's deceased grandmother had made the representations dated April 8, 2010 and December 31, 2012 seeking the transfer of both her licenses in favour of her grandson, the petitioner, on medical grounds much prior to the implementation of the 2013 Order which had come into force on August 8, 2013. Mr. Saha Roy also argued that since provisions of the then 2003 Order was applicable to the petitioner's case, the delay caused by the indolence of the respondents in processing the above representations should not result in adverse consequences for the petitioner.