{"id":198143,"date":"2011-11-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-m-d-bihar-state-housing-vs-shakuntala-devi-ors-on-17-november-2011"},"modified":"2016-04-11T02:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T20:42:50","slug":"the-m-d-bihar-state-housing-vs-shakuntala-devi-ors-on-17-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-m-d-bihar-state-housing-vs-shakuntala-devi-ors-on-17-november-2011","title":{"rendered":"The M.D.,Bihar State Housing &#8230; vs Shakuntala Devi &amp; Ors on 17 November, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The M.D.,Bihar State Housing &#8230; vs Shakuntala Devi &amp; Ors on 17 November, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>                    IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                                  Letters Patent Appeal No.1358 of 2011\n                                                    In\n                              Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 5131 of 2003\n                                                   With\n                                Interlocutory Application No. 6634 of 2011\n                                                   And\n                                Interlocutory Application No. 6635 of 2011\n                                                    In\n                                  Letters Patent Appeal No.1358 of 2011\n                 ======================================================\n                 The Managing Director, Bihar State Housing Board Patna &amp; Ors.\n                                                                      .... .... Appellant\/s\n                                                  Versus\n                 Shakuntala Devi &amp; Ors.\n                                                                     .... .... Respondent\/s\n                 ======================================================\n                 Appearance :\n                 For the Appellant\/s     : Mr. Lalit Kishore, Senior Advocate and\n                                            Mr. Rabindra Kumar Priyadarshy, Advocate.\n                 For the Respondent\/s    :\n\n                 ======================================================\n                 CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE\n                        and\n                        HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA PRASAD VERMA\n\n                 ORAL ORDER<\/pre>\n<p>                 (Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE)<\/p>\n<p>3   17-11-2011              Await service to the respondents.\n<\/p>\n<p>                            Registry will make enquiry with the court below.<br \/>\n                             Stand over to 1st December 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                (R.M. Doshit, CJ)<\/p>\n<p>                                        (Birendra Prasad Verma, J)<br \/>\n    Prakash\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders The M.D.,Bihar State Housing &#8230; vs Shakuntala Devi &amp; Ors on 17 November, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Letters Patent Appeal No.1358 of 2011 In Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 5131 of 2003 With Interlocutory Application No. 6634 of 2011 And Interlocutory Application No. 6635 of [&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":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The M.D.,Bihar State Housing ... vs Shakuntala Devi &amp; 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