{"id":222905,"date":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-anguswamy-vs-the-secretary-to-the-government-on-4-february-2010"},"modified":"2014-08-24T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T09:12:38","slug":"k-anguswamy-vs-the-secretary-to-the-government-on-4-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-anguswamy-vs-the-secretary-to-the-government-on-4-february-2010","title":{"rendered":"K.Anguswamy vs The Secretary To The Government on 4 February, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">K.Anguswamy vs The Secretary To The Government on 4 February, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDATED: 04.02.2010\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR\n\nW.P.NO.33798 OF 2006\n\n1.K.Anguswamy\n2.D.Chakravarthy\n3.R.Alfred Wilson\n4.G.Subramaniyan\n5.M.Alagu\n6.S.Thennarasu\n7.R.Subbaraju\n8.V.Gunasekaran\t\n9.R.Lingathirumarn\n10.P.Alagusundaram\n11.S.Asokmetha\n12.N.B.Vijayakumar\n13.M.Subbaiyan\n14.M.Vetri Chelvan\n15.S.P.Sinua Raja\n16.R.Ravikumar\n17.G.Ravanan.\t\t    \t\t\t\t..  Petitioners\nVs.\n\n1.The Secretary to the Government,\n   Home (Police III) Department,\n   Fort St. George,\n   Chennai 9.\n\n2.The Director General of Police,\n   Chennai  5.\t\t\t\t\t\t.. Respondents\n\n                              \t\nPRAYER : Original Application No.9658 of 1998 was filed before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal praying to direct the respondents to consider the claim of applicants for inclusion of their name in the 'C' list of Sub-Inspectors of Police fit for promotion to the post of Inspector of Police for the year 1998-99 and promote them as Inspector of Police and grant them all consequential service and monetary benefits and grant such other further relief.  Since the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal was abolished, the O.A. was received by transfer and numbered as Writ Petition. \n\n\t\t        For Petitioners\t:   Mr.M.Muthappan\n\n\t\t        For Respondents\t:   Mr.B.Vijay\t\t\t\t\t\t                            Government Advocate\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\t\tThe learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the writ petition has become infructuous.  He has also made an endorsement to that effect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t2.In view of the endorsement made by the learned counsel for the petitioners this writ petition is dismissed as infructuous.  No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>vsm<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1.The Secretary to the Government,<br \/>\n   Home (Police III) Department,<br \/>\n   Fort St. George,<br \/>\n   Chennai 9.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Director General of Police,<br \/>\n   Chennai 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court K.Anguswamy vs The Secretary To The Government on 4 February, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 04.02.2010 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR W.P.NO.33798 OF 2006 1.K.Anguswamy 2.D.Chakravarthy 3.R.Alfred Wilson 4.G.Subramaniyan 5.M.Alagu 6.S.Thennarasu 7.R.Subbaraju 8.V.Gunasekaran 9.R.Lingathirumarn 10.P.Alagusundaram 11.S.Asokmetha 12.N.B.Vijayakumar 13.M.Subbaiyan 14.M.Vetri Chelvan 15.S.P.Sinua Raja 16.R.Ravikumar 17.G.Ravanan. .. Petitioners Vs. 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