{"id":107229,"date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sankara-pillai-vs-k-n-vasudevan-pillai-on-4-june-2009"},"modified":"2016-05-23T16:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T10:39:50","slug":"sankara-pillai-vs-k-n-vasudevan-pillai-on-4-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sankara-pillai-vs-k-n-vasudevan-pillai-on-4-june-2009","title":{"rendered":"Sankara Pillai vs K.N. Vasudevan Pillai on 4 June, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sankara Pillai vs K.N. Vasudevan Pillai on 4 June, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 13532 of 2009(J)\n\n\n1. SANKARA PILLAI,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. K.N. VASUDEVAN PILLAI,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE SECRETARY, KAYAMKULAM MUNICIPALITY,\n\n3. SUDHAKARAN, BUILDING INSPECTOR,\n\n4. THE OMBUDSMAN FOR LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.MILLU DANDAPANI\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.R.RAYA SHENOY,SC FOR KAYAMKULAM MUNI\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN\n\n Dated :04\/06\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n               THOTTATHIL B RADHAKRISHNAN, J\n                   ...........................................\n                  WP(C).NO. 13532               OF 2009\n                  ............................................\n            DATED THIS THE 4th DAY OF JUNE, 2009\n\n                                JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>     This writ petition is filed challenging an order of the<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman for Local Self Government institutions, following the<\/p>\n<p>order which is Ext.P7 in WP(C) 13531 of 2009. Today I have<\/p>\n<p>dismissed that writ petition, upholding that order which was<\/p>\n<p>issued by the Tribunal for Local Self Government institutions. On<\/p>\n<p>the basis of that order of the Tribunal, there is no legal infirmity<\/p>\n<p>or jurisdictional error in the order impugned in this writ petition.<\/p>\n<p>     In the result, the writ petition fails and the same is<\/p>\n<p>accordingly dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                THOTTATHIL B RADHAKRISHNAN,<br \/>\n                                               JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>lgk\/4\/6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Sankara Pillai vs K.N. Vasudevan Pillai on 4 June, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 13532 of 2009(J) 1. SANKARA PILLAI, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. K.N. VASUDEVAN PILLAI, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE SECRETARY, KAYAMKULAM MUNICIPALITY, 3. SUDHAKARAN, BUILDING INSPECTOR, 4. THE OMBUDSMAN FOR LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT For Petitioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sankara Pillai vs K.N. 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