{"id":119854,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/saji-p-thomas-vs-corporation-of-cochin-on-11-february-2009"},"modified":"2017-05-16T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T16:26:27","slug":"saji-p-thomas-vs-corporation-of-cochin-on-11-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/saji-p-thomas-vs-corporation-of-cochin-on-11-february-2009","title":{"rendered":"Saji.P.Thomas vs Corporation Of Cochin on 11 February, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Saji.P.Thomas vs Corporation Of Cochin on 11 February, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 4437 of 2009(C)\n\n\n1. SAJI.P.THOMAS,FLAT NO.12 D, EXPRESS\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. CORPORATION OF COCHIN, REP. BY ITS\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. STATE OF KERALA,REP BY SECRETARY,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.C.K.KARUNAKARAN\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.K.ANAND, SC, COCHIN CORPN.\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :11\/02\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n                             S.SIRI JAGAN, J.\n\n                      ==================\n\n                         W.P(C).No.4437 of 2009\n\n                      ==================\n\n                Dated this the 11th day of February, 2009\n\n                             J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>      The petitioner challenges Ext.P5 order dated 25.9.2006 whereby<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner&#8217;s application for a building permit has been rejected. I<\/p>\n<p>am not inclined to entertain this writ petition since the explanation<\/p>\n<p>furnished by the petitioner for the long delay of two years           in<\/p>\n<p>challenging Ext.P5 is not at all convincing. The explanation offered by<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner is that the petitioner knew about the reasons for<\/p>\n<p>rejecting the application for building permit only now. Whether the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner knew the reasons or not, the same cannot stand in the way<\/p>\n<p>of challenging Ext.P5 within a reasonable time and in fact the non-<\/p>\n<p>disclosure of reasons would have been a ground for such challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the same is not an acceptable explanation for not<\/p>\n<p>challenging Ext.P5 immediately after it has been received.       In the<\/p>\n<p>above circumstances, the delay and laches in challenging Ext.P5<\/p>\n<p>remains unexplained. Therefore,      I am not inclined to exercise my<\/p>\n<p>discretionary jurisdiction in favour of the petitioner. Accordingly, the<\/p>\n<p>writ petition is dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                        Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<pre>sdk+                                              S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE\n                 \/\/\/True copy\/\/\/\n\n                                    P.A. to Judge\n\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">2<\/span>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Saji.P.Thomas vs Corporation Of Cochin on 11 February, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 4437 of 2009(C) 1. SAJI.P.THOMAS,FLAT NO.12 D, EXPRESS &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. CORPORATION OF COCHIN, REP. BY ITS &#8230; Respondent 2. STATE OF KERALA,REP BY SECRETARY, For Petitioner :SRI.C.K.KARUNAKARAN For Respondent :SRI.K.ANAND, SC, COCHIN [&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-119854","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saji.P.Thomas vs Corporation Of Cochin on 11 February, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/saji-p-thomas-vs-corporation-of-cochin-on-11-february-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saji.P.Thomas vs Corporation Of Cochin on 11 February, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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