{"id":214067,"date":"2007-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-r-devassy-vs-state-of-kerala-on-10-april-2007"},"modified":"2015-07-26T22:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T17:29:26","slug":"c-r-devassy-vs-state-of-kerala-on-10-april-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-r-devassy-vs-state-of-kerala-on-10-april-2007","title":{"rendered":"C.R.Devassy vs State Of Kerala on 10 April, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">C.R.Devassy vs State Of Kerala 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. 12378 of 2007(W)\n\n\n1. C.R.DEVASSY, SON OF RAPHAEL,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. T.A.JOSE AND COMPANY, AWD NO.III AND\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.GIRI\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.12378  of 2007\n\n                -----------------------------------------\n\n\n                Dated this the  10th day  of  April,  2007\n\n\n\n                                 JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>       Heard   the   learned   counsel   for   the   petitioner   as   also   the<\/p>\n<p>learned Government Pleader.\n<\/p>\n<p>       2. The only prayer pressed before me by the petitioner is for<\/p>\n<p>a   direction   to   the   first   respondent   to   consider   Ext.P3   and   pass<\/p>\n<p>appropriate orders thereon. In the facts and circumstances of the<\/p>\n<p>case,   I   direct   the   first   respondent   to   consider   Ext.P3   and   pass<\/p>\n<p>appropriate orders thereon,  as expeditiously  as possible,  at  any<\/p>\n<p>rate, within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this<\/p>\n<p>judgment   after   affording   an   opportunity   of   being   heard   to   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner and the second respondent.\n<\/p>\n<p>       The writ petition is disposed of as above.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                        S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE<br \/>\ncss<br \/>\n  \/<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">W.P.(C)No.                                            :2:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>s<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">W.P.(C)No.                                            :3:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court C.R.Devassy vs State Of Kerala on 10 April, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 12378 of 2007(W) 1. C.R.DEVASSY, SON OF RAPHAEL, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE &#8230; Respondent 2. T.A.JOSE AND COMPANY, AWD NO.III AND For Petitioner :SRI.V.GIRI For Respondent : [&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-214067","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>C.R.Devassy vs State Of Kerala 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\/c-r-devassy-vs-state-of-kerala-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=\"C.R.Devassy vs State Of Kerala on 10 April, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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