{"id":165621,"date":"2008-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-tamil-nadu-public-works-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-24-june-2008"},"modified":"2016-09-04T03:22:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T21:52:28","slug":"the-tamil-nadu-public-works-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-24-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-tamil-nadu-public-works-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-24-june-2008","title":{"rendered":"The Tamil Nadu Public Works vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 24 June, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Tamil Nadu Public Works vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 24 June, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\nDATE: 24-06-2008\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN\n\nWrit Petition No.28921 of 2006\nO.A.No.2478 of 1996\n\nThe Tamil Nadu Public Works\nDepartment Employees'\n(Former Work Charged Establishment)\nAssociation, rep. by its General Secretary\nThiru.M.Kaliyamurthy, \nP.W.D. Office Compound,\nChepauk, Madras-600 005.\t\t\t\t\t\t.. Petitioner.\n\nVersus\n\n1.State of Tamil Nadu,\nrep. by its Secretary to Government,\nPublic Works Department,\nFort St. George, Madras-600 009.\n\n2.The Chief Engineer (Buildings),\nPublic Works Department,\nChepauk, Madras-600 005.\n\n3.The Superintendent,\nMarina Garden Section,\nPublic Works Department,\nMadras-600 005.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.. Respondents. \n\n\nPrayer: This petition has been filed seeking for a writ of Certiorari, to quash the impugned order issued by the first respondent under G.O.Ms.No.118, Public Works (Y2) Department, dated 7.2.1996, in so far as it relates to the transfer the services of the members of the Applicant Association to the Corporation of Madras. \n\n\n\n\nM.JAICHANDREN,J.\n\n\n\t\tFor Petitioner\t  : Mr.N.C.Ramesh\n\n\t\tFor Respondents   : Mr.T.Sreenivasan\n\t\t\t\t\t    Government Advocate \n\n\nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\tToday, when the matter was taken up for hearing, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner had sought the permission of this Court to withdraw the writ petition. He has also made an endorsement to that effect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2. Based on the endorsement made by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, the writ petition is dismissed as withdrawn. No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>csh<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1. The Secretary to Government,<br \/>\nState of Tamil Nadu,<br \/>\nPublic Works Department,<br \/>\nFort St. George, Madras-600 009.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Chief Engineer (Buildings),<br \/>\nPublic Works Department,<br \/>\nChepauk, Madras-600 005.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.The Superintendent,<br \/>\nMarina Garden Section,<br \/>\nPublic Works Department,<br \/>\nMadras 600 005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court The Tamil Nadu Public Works vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 24 June, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATE: 24-06-2008 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN Writ Petition No.28921 of 2006 O.A.No.2478 of 1996 The Tamil Nadu Public Works Department Employees&#8217; (Former Work Charged Establishment) Association, rep. by its [&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-165621","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>The Tamil Nadu Public Works vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 24 June, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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