{"id":193675,"date":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shaji-k-jacob-vs-the-sub-inspector-of-police-on-10-april-2007"},"modified":"2018-06-04T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T17:00:03","slug":"shaji-k-jacob-vs-the-sub-inspector-of-police-on-10-april-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shaji-k-jacob-vs-the-sub-inspector-of-police-on-10-april-2007","title":{"rendered":"Shaji K.Jacob vs The Sub Inspector Of Police on 10 April, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Shaji K.Jacob vs The Sub Inspector Of Police on 10 April, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 12329 of 2007(P)\n\n\n1. SHAJI K.JACOB, VIZHALIL,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. MR.PRABHULLA CHANDRAN,\n\n3. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.V.NANDAGOPAL NAMBIAR\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :10\/04\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                                S. SIRI JAGAN, J.\n\n                      -----------------------------------\n\n                         W.P.(C)NO.12329 OF 2007\n\n                      ------------------------------------\n\n             DATED THIS THE 10th DAY OF APRIL, 2007\n\n\n                                     JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>The petitioner has approached this Court with this writ petition seeking<\/p>\n<p>a   direction   to   the   1st  respondent   to   issue   a   receipt   for   payment   of<\/p>\n<p>money and list of articles bid by the petitioner in auction on 21.4.2003.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly,   the   receipt   and   list   of   articles   pertains   to   a   transaction<\/p>\n<p>which happened in 21.4.03. The petitioner is approaching this court for<\/p>\n<p>this   relief   after   almost   four   years   thereafter.     I   am   not   inclined   to<\/p>\n<p>entertain this writ petition at this distance of time especially since the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner   has   not   even   attempted   to   explain   the   long   delay   in<\/p>\n<p>approaching   this   Court.     From   the   documents   produced   by   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner   himself,   he   had   chosen   to   file   a   petition   against   police<\/p>\n<p>harassment   before   this   Court,   which   was   disposed   of   by   Ext.P3<\/p>\n<p>judgment in which also, apparently, he had not raised such a claim. In<\/p>\n<p>the   above   circumstances,   I   am   not   inclined   to   exercise   my<\/p>\n<p>discretionary   jurisdiction   in   favour   of   the   petitioner,   who   is   guilty   of<\/p>\n<p>unexplained delay and laches.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>       Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>                                                   S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>Acd<\/p>\n<p>             S. 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THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, For Petitioner :SRI.V.V.NANDAGOPAL NAMBIAR [&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-193675","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>Shaji K.Jacob vs The Sub Inspector Of Police on 10 April, 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\/shaji-k-jacob-vs-the-sub-inspector-of-police-on-10-april-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shaji K.Jacob vs The Sub Inspector Of Police on 10 April, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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