Gauhati High Court
Page No.# 1/5 vs Deba Kanta Laskar on 24 November, 2025
Author: Devashis Baruah
Bench: Devashis Baruah
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GAHC010126662025
2025:GAU-AS:15979
THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT
(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
Case No. : Review.Pet./108/2025
THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 3 ORS
REPRESENTED BY THE SECY. TO THE GOVT. OF ASSAM, WATER
RESOURCES DEPTT., DISPUR, GUWAHATI 781006, ASSAM.
2: THE CHIEF ENGINEER
WATER RESOURCES DEPTT.
DISPUR
GUWAHATI 03
ASSAM.
3: THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER
NAGAON WATER RESOURCES CIRCLE
A.T. ROAD
NAGAON 782001
ASSAM.
4: THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
NAGAON WATER RESOURCES DEPTT.
AT ROAD
NAGAON 782001
ASSAM
VERSUS
DEBA KANTA LASKAR
S/O JOGEN LASKAR, VILL. KALYANPUR, P.O. AND P.S. KAMPUR, DIST.
NAGAON, ASSAM, PIN 782426
Advocate for the Petitioner : MR R M DAS, SC, WATER RESOURCE
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Advocate for the Respondent : ,
Linked Case : WP(C)/2977/2022
DEBA KANTA LASKAR
S/O- JOGEN LASKAR
VILL. KALYANPUR
P.O. KAMPUR
P.S. KAMPUR
DIST.- NAGAON
ASSAM. PIN- 782426.
VERSUS
THE STATE OF ASSAM AND 3 ORS.
REP. BY THE COMM. AND SECY. TO THE GOVT. OF ASSAM
WATER RESOURCE DEPTT.
DISPUR
GHY.-06.
2:THE CHIEF ENGINEER
WATER RESOURCE DEPTT.
CHANDMARI
GHY-03.
3:THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER
WATER RESOURCE CIRCLE NAGAON
P.O.
P.S. AND DIST.- NAGAON
ASSAM
PIN- 782001.
4:THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER
WATER RESOURCE DEPTT.
NAGAON
WATER RESOURCE DIVISION NAGAON
P.O.
P.S. AND DIST.- NAGAON
ASSAM
PIN- 782001.
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BEFORE
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEVASHIS BARUAH
Advocates for the petitioner(s) : Mr. RM Das
Advocates for the respondent(s) :
Date of hearing & judgment :24.11.2025
JUDGMENT & ORDER(ORAL)
Heard Mr. RM Das, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the review
petitioners.
2. The present review application has been filed challenging the common order
dated 27.09.2022 passed in WP(C) No.2977/2022 whereby the learned
Coordinate Bench of this Court after hearing the learned counsel for the parties
in the said writ petition along with the batch of connected writ petitions passed
the following order:-
"(1) Within 15 (fifteen) days from today, the concerned official of the
State Government of Assam will communicate the supplementary budget
passed in the last Assembly Session pertaining to the scheme to the
competent authority of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India.
(2) Within 60 (sixty) days from the date of receipt of such
communication, the Ministry of Jal Shakti to release the amount due under
the schemes to the concerned Department of the Government of Assam.
(3) Upon receipt of the amount, bills of the writ petitioners shall be
processed and cleared within a further period of 45 days.
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In view of the directions issued herein above, the respondents to
complete the entire process within a period of four months from today.
A copy of this order be furnished to Mr. B. Goswami, learned Addl.
Advocate General, Assam and Mr. R. K. Dev Choudhury, learned DSGI.
The written instructions dated 26.09.2022 be kept as a part of the
record of this case.
All these writ petitions stand disposed of accordingly."
3. By referring to the order dated 27.09.2022, Mr. RM Das, the learned counsel
appearing on behalf of the review petitioners has argued that the review
petition arises out of the common order dated 27.09.2022 passed in the
connected writ petitions wherein, the Ministry of Jal Shakti was not made a
party.
4. Contending that the pending bills could not be cleared by the State of
Assam due to non-receipt of the share of contribution coming from the Ministry
of Jal Shakti, Union of India, Mr. RM Das, the learned counsel for the review
petitioners submits that these writ petitions are required to be heard afresh
after serving notice upon the Ministry of Jal Shakti. Mr. RM Das, the learned
counsel for the review petitioners has, however, candidly submitted that the
order dated 27.09.2022 passed by this Court even in respect of those writ
petitions where the Ministry of Jal Shakti was impleaded as party, has not been
complied with till today.
5. Be that as it may, this Court finds that by the order dated 27.09.2022
direction was also issued to the Ministry of Jal Shakti to release the amount due
under the scheme. The Ministry of Jal Shakti was duly represented by Mr. RK.
Dev Choudhury, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India, but no objection was
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raised by the learned counsel for the respondents on the ground of non-joinder
of necessary party. Moreover, the said Ministry has also not sought any review
of the order.
6. It was for the petitioners to implead the Ministry of Jal Shakti and if they
had failed to do so resulting in a situation where the order dated 27.09.2022
cannot be implemented on technical grounds, even then, it would be for the
writ petitioners to face the consequences. The same cannot, however, be a
ground for this Court to review/ recall the order dated 27.09.2022, which was
passed by this Court after hearing the learned counsel for the parties including
the Deputy Solicitor General of India representing the Ministry of Jal Shakti in
the Union of India as well as the Brahmaputra Board.
7. For the reasons stated herein above, this Court does not find any good
ground to review the order dated 27.09.2022.
8. Consequently, the Review Petition is held to be devoid of any merit. The
same is accordingly, dismissed.
JUDGE
Comparing Assistant
