{"id":209242,"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-suresh-bhat-vs-the-mangalore-catholic-on-9-january-2009"},"modified":"2014-02-13T01:22:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:52:25","slug":"sri-suresh-bhat-vs-the-mangalore-catholic-on-9-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-suresh-bhat-vs-the-mangalore-catholic-on-9-january-2009","title":{"rendered":"Sri Suresh Bhat vs The Mangalore Catholic on 9 January, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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