{"id":201048,"date":"2009-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/karnataka-state-road-transport-vs-raju-so-sonne-gowda-on-2-december-2009"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T06:42:13","slug":"karnataka-state-road-transport-vs-raju-so-sonne-gowda-on-2-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/karnataka-state-road-transport-vs-raju-so-sonne-gowda-on-2-december-2009","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka State Road Transport &#8230; vs Raju S\/O Sonne Gowda on 2 December, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Karnataka State Road Transport &#8230; vs Raju S\/O Sonne Gowda on 2 December, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: V.Jagannathan<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>EN THE; E&#8221;\u00a7IC&#8217;xH ESQJURT&#8217; OF&#8217; i{ARN\ufb02T&#8217;Ai{\u00a3X AT&#8217; BAN{}Ps.LC&gt;f\u20acE}_<\/p>\n<p>E}atad;&#8217;?i\ufb02S&#8217;d1e 2\ufb02\u00e9(i3yT0fE)ec&amp;n1ber 2\u00a3X}9.f. a x <\/p>\n<p>BEFORE<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;THE iri(_i&gt;N&#8217;BLE M;::.._mST\u00a3&lt;:\u00a3\u00ab: v.JAG;xNNiA*;&quot;&amp;;:&#039;:A;\u00a7:~  T &#039;<\/p>\n<p>M.F.A.:s4e.2:;:0\u00a7\u00a312:3::::8c;!=:s\u00e9* &#039; ._ &#8211;<br \/>\nM.\u00a5&#039;.A. 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