{"id":207556,"date":"2008-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bharath-sanchar-nigam-ltd-vs-deputy-chief-engineer-on-27-march-2008"},"modified":"2014-12-05T19:04:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T13:34:22","slug":"bharath-sanchar-nigam-ltd-vs-deputy-chief-engineer-on-27-march-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/bharath-sanchar-nigam-ltd-vs-deputy-chief-engineer-on-27-march-2008","title":{"rendered":"Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd vs Deputy Chief Engineer on 27 March, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd vs Deputy Chief Engineer on 27 March, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 766 of 2008(N)\n\n\n1. BHARATH SANCHAR NIGAM LTD.,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. ASSISTANT ENGINEER,\n\n3. ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE ENGINEER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.C.S.RAMANATHAN\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.P.P.THAJUDEEN, SC, K.S.E.B\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN\n\n Dated :27\/03\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n            THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, J.\n                   -------------------------------------------\n                       W.P(C).No.766 OF 2008\n                  -------------------------------------------\n              Dated this the 27th day of March, 2008\n\n\n                              JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>     Petitioner is the BSNL. Anti Power Theft Squad of the<\/p>\n<p>Kerala State Electricity Board inspected the Telephone<\/p>\n<p>Exchange. It is stated that the Board authorities recorded that<\/p>\n<p>one of the three phases is not working. It was treated as a case<\/p>\n<p>under Section 126. Petitioner filed an appeal invoking Section<\/p>\n<p>127. The Deputy Chief Engineer has dismissed it unfortunately<\/p>\n<p>stating no reasons. The case in hand requires that the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>is given an opportunity of hearing and if the decision is against<\/p>\n<p>the interest of the petitioner, the Deputy Chief Engineer has to<\/p>\n<p>state reasons thereof so that such decision can be subjected to<\/p>\n<p>judicial review. For the aforesaid reasons, Ext.P9 is quashed and<\/p>\n<p>the writ petition is disposed of directing that the petitioner will<\/p>\n<p>appear or cause appearance before the Deputy Chief Engineer<\/p>\n<p>on 29.4.2008 for listing and consideration of its appeal              in<\/p>\n<p>accordance with law.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                              Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>                              THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN,<br \/>\n                                                             Judge<br \/>\nkkb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd vs Deputy Chief Engineer on 27 March, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 766 of 2008(N) 1. BHARATH SANCHAR NIGAM LTD., &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER, &#8230; Respondent 2. ASSISTANT ENGINEER, 3. ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, For Petitioner :SRI.C.S.RAMANATHAN For Respondent :SRI.P.P.THAJUDEEN, SC, [&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-207556","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>Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd vs Deputy Chief Engineer on 27 March, 2008 - 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\/bharath-sanchar-nigam-ltd-vs-deputy-chief-engineer-on-27-march-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd vs Deputy Chief Engineer on 27 March, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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