{"id":170438,"date":"2007-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-state-of-kerala-represented-by-vs-c-p-baburaj-on-22-june-2007"},"modified":"2017-11-13T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:32:14","slug":"the-state-of-kerala-represented-by-vs-c-p-baburaj-on-22-june-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-state-of-kerala-represented-by-vs-c-p-baburaj-on-22-june-2007","title":{"rendered":"The State Of Kerala Represented By vs C.P.Baburaj on 22 June, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The State Of Kerala Represented By vs C.P.Baburaj on 22 June, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWA No. 1441 of 2007()\n\n\n1. THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER,\n3. COMMISSIONER FOR COMMERCIAL TAXES,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. C.P.BABURAJ, S\/O GOPALAN,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n                For Petitioner  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Justice MR.H.L.DATTU\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.T.SANKARAN\n\n Dated :22\/06\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                 H.L.DATTU, C.J. &amp; K.T.SANKARAN,J.\n\n                ----------------------------------------------------\n\n                   W.A. NOs. 1441, 1448, 1453,  1457,\n\n                           1458 &amp; 1460  OF  2007\n\n                ----------------------------------------------------\n\n                        Dated this the 22nd June,   2007\n\n\n                                JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>H.L.DATTU, C.J.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        Since   common question of law is involved in all these writ appeals,<\/p>\n<p>they are called together and disposed of by this common judgment.<\/p>\n<p>        2.   State, being aggrieved by the orders passed by the learned single<\/p>\n<p>Judge in W.P.(C) No.5578 of 2007 and connected matters, disposed of on the<\/p>\n<p>same date, is before us in these writ appeals.<\/p>\n<p>        3.   Similar issue had come before us in W.A.No.1287 of 2007. After<\/p>\n<p>hearing learned counsel for the State, we have rejected that writ appeal.  The<\/p>\n<p>issue raised in these writ appeals also is similar to the one which was raised<\/p>\n<p>and canvassed before us in the aforesaid writ appeal.<\/p>\n<p>        4.  Following the observations made in the aforesaid writ appeal, these<\/p>\n<p>writ appeals are also rejected.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        Ordered accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                (H.L.DATTU)<\/p>\n<p>                                                                Chief Justice<\/p>\n<p>                                                            (K.T.SANKARAN)<\/p>\n<p>                                                                        Judge<\/p>\n<p>ahz\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court The State Of Kerala Represented By vs C.P.Baburaj on 22 June, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WA No. 1441 of 2007() 1. THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY &#8230; Petitioner 2. COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER, 3. COMMISSIONER FOR COMMERCIAL TAXES, Vs 1. C.P.BABURAJ, S\/O GOPALAN, &#8230; Respondent 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-170438","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The State Of Kerala Represented By vs C.P.Baburaj on 22 June, 2007 - 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\/the-state-of-kerala-represented-by-vs-c-p-baburaj-on-22-june-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The State Of Kerala Represented By vs C.P.Baburaj on 22 June, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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