{"id":140703,"date":"2007-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/j-muthukumar-vs-the-chennai-metropolitan-dev-on-5-december-2007"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T12:09:34","slug":"j-muthukumar-vs-the-chennai-metropolitan-dev-on-5-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/j-muthukumar-vs-the-chennai-metropolitan-dev-on-5-december-2007","title":{"rendered":"J. Muthukumar vs The Chennai Metropolitan Dev on 5 December, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">J. Muthukumar vs The Chennai Metropolitan Dev on 5 December, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n In the High Court of Judicature at Madras\n\nDate :  05..12..2007\n\nCoram :\n\nThe Hon'ble Mr. Justice P. JYOTHIMANI\n\nWrit Petition No: 36387 of 2007\n\nJ. Muthukumar, \nBlock No: 10, EWS, Plot No:6,\nGudalur, \nMaramalai Nagar  603 209. \t\t\t\t...  Petitioner\n\n-vs-\n\n1.  The Chennai Metropolitan Dev.\n\tAuthority,\n     Thalamuthu Natarajan Building,\n     No: 1, Gandhi Irwin Road,\n     Egmore, Chennai  8.\n\n2.  The Sub Registrar,\n     Registration Department,\n     Chengelpet.  \t\t\t\t\t\t...  Respondents\n\n\tWrit petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of mandamus to direct the 1st respondent to execute the sale deed on the stamp duty paid on the actual consideration received by them and consequently direct the 2nd respondent to receive the same for registration without insisting stamp duty on the guideline value in respect of Block No: 10, EWS Plot No:6, Gudalur, Maraimalai Nagar     603 209.\n\n\t\tFor petitioner            :  Mr. S. Jayaseelan    \n\t\tFor 1st resp.              :  M\/s. C. Kathiravan \n\n\t\tFor 2nd resp.              :  M\/s. V. Balu, \n\t\t\t\t\t        Addl. Govt. Pleader (W)\n\n..  ..  ..\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tP. JYOTHIMANI, J.\n\n               gp\n\nO R D E R \n<\/pre>\n<p>\tThe issue involved in this writ petition is covered by the decision rendered by the Division Bench of this Court in the case reported in 1997 (2) C.T.C. 617 ( <a href=\"\/doc\/531396\/\">S.P. Padmavathi vs. State of Tamil Nadu<\/a> ) holding that in respect of allotment made by the Governmental agencies, there is no concealment of consideration and, therefore, the claim of the stamp duty and existing market value does not arise.  It is stated that petitioner is an allottee from the 1st respondent for a consideration and, therefore, it cannot be assumed to be false.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2.  Thus, following the decision of the Division Bench cited supra, this writ petition is allowed.  No costs.\n<\/p>\n<pre>gp\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t05..12..2007\nCopy to :\n1.  The Chennai Metropolitan Dev.\n\tAuthority,\n     Thalamuthu Natarajan Building,\n     No: 1, Gandhi Irwin Road,\n     Egmore, Chennai  8.\n\n2.  The Sub Registrar,\n     Registration Department,\n     Chengelpet.  \t\t\t\t              W.P. No: 36387 of 2007\n \n      <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court J. Muthukumar vs The Chennai Metropolitan Dev on 5 December, 2007 In the High Court of Judicature at Madras Date : 05..12..2007 Coram : The Hon&#8217;ble Mr. Justice P. JYOTHIMANI Writ Petition No: 36387 of 2007 J. Muthukumar, Block No: 10, EWS, Plot No:6, Gudalur, Maramalai Nagar 603 209. &#8230; Petitioner -vs- [&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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>J. 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