{"id":118393,"date":"2005-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-gopalakrishna-bhat-vs-the-chief-executive-officer-and-on-30-june-2005"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T10:29:23","slug":"k-gopalakrishna-bhat-vs-the-chief-executive-officer-and-on-30-june-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-gopalakrishna-bhat-vs-the-chief-executive-officer-and-on-30-june-2005","title":{"rendered":"K. Gopalakrishna Bhat vs The Chief Executive Officer And &#8230; on 30 June, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">K. Gopalakrishna Bhat vs The Chief Executive Officer And &#8230; on 30 June, 2005<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: ILR 2005 KAR 4220<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: R M Reddy<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: R M Reddy<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Ram Mohan Reddy, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The grievance of the petitioner is that the order Dated 3.6.2002, Annexure &#8216;A&#8217; passed by the 1st respondent appellate authority while dismissing the appeal against the revision of property tax by the 2nd respondent is one without application of mind, cryptic and tantamounts to denial of justice.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. An examination of Annexure-A discloses that the appellate authority has not set out any reasons for dismissing the appeal muchless for affirming the order appealed against the contentions urged by the petitioner in the appeal are not even adverted to in the order. The order is cryptic, is without application of mind, and suffers from the vice of denial of justice. There can be no doubt that the grievance of the petitioner is well founded.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The Supreme Court in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/376053\/\">Mangalore Ganesh Beedi Works v. C.I.T. Mysore<\/a>  while holding that failure to give reasons amounts to denial of justice, observed thus:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true that in an order of affirmation, repetition of reasons elaborately may not be necessary. But even then the argument advances, points urged have to be dealt with. Reasons for affirmation have to be indicated, though in appropriate cases they may be briefly stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>Recording of reasons is a part of fair procedure. Reasons are harbinger between the mind of maker of the decision in the controversy and the decision or conclusion arrived at. They substitute subjectivity with objectivity. As observed in Alexander Machinery (Dudley) Ltd. v. Crabtree, failure to give reasons amounts to denial of justice.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>4. The obeservation of the Apex Court in the case of <a href=\"\/doc\/1142549\/\">Woolcombers of India Ltd. v. Woolcombers Workers Union and Anr.<\/a>  in the circumstances is opposite:\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The giving of reasons in support of their conclusions by judicial and quasi-judicial authorities when exercising initial jurisdiction is essential for various reasons. First it is calculated to prevent unconscious unfairness or arbitrariness in reaching the conclusions. The very search for reasons will put the authority on the alert and minimise the chances of unconscious infiltration of personal bias or unfairness in the conclusion.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The writ petition is allowed. The impugned order Annexure-A is quashed and the proceedings in remitted to the first respondent, with a direction to extend an opportunity of hearing to the parties, in the appeal and pass orders by recording reasons, strictly in accordance with law and in the light of the observations made supra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka High Court K. Gopalakrishna Bhat vs The Chief Executive Officer And &#8230; on 30 June, 2005 Equivalent citations: ILR 2005 KAR 4220 Author: R M Reddy Bench: R M Reddy ORDER Ram Mohan Reddy, J. 1. The grievance of the petitioner is that the order Dated 3.6.2002, Annexure &#8216;A&#8217; passed by the 1st respondent [&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":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>K. 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