{"id":226600,"date":"1912-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1912-09-23T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ravinuthala-venkatappiah-vs-the-secretary-of-state-for-india-in-on-24-september-1912"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:08:47","slug":"ravinuthala-venkatappiah-vs-the-secretary-of-state-for-india-in-on-24-september-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ravinuthala-venkatappiah-vs-the-secretary-of-state-for-india-in-on-24-september-1912","title":{"rendered":"Ravinuthala Venkatappiah vs The Secretary Of State For India In &#8230; on 24 September, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ravinuthala Venkatappiah vs The Secretary Of State For India In &#8230; on 24 September, 1912<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 16 Ind Cas 895<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: S Aiyar<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Aiyar, S Aiyar<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Sundara Aiyar, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The Government Pleader says that all that the District Munsif intended to do was to warn the petitioner that if he went to his Court without a summons or order of the Court, he would take steps to have him adjudged a law tout by the District Judge. In my opinion, such an order ought not to have been passed. If there was any reason to suspect that the petitioner was a tout, it was, no doubt, the duty of the Munsif to take steps to have him declared a tout. It appears to me to be objectionable to direct that the petitioner should not go to the District Munsif&#8217;s Court, where justice is openly dispensed, without a summons or order. The notice to the petitioner expressly states: &#8220;you are a law tout.&#8221; This again is, in my opinion, absolutely without justification. Admittedly, the District Munsif held no inquiry into the matter. In his order, the Munsif says: &#8220;I see no reason to alter my opinion of the fact of his being a tout, though his Pleader has said that I should make an inquiry. Besides, it is unnecessary to make any inquiry.&#8221; It is, in my opinion, surprising that a District Munsif should refuse to make aid inquiry, and at the same time express an opinion that the petitioner is a tout, There is, of course, no objection to the District Munsif&#8217;s taking steps against any person whom he suspects to be a tout to have him adjudged a tout according to law.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Having regard to the explanation now given, it is not necessary to pass any further order.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sadasiva Aiyar, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. I am of opinion that this matter ought not to have been brought before us acting as a Judicial Bench. The District Munsif did not give any notice to anybody under the Legal Practitioners Act but merely gave a warning to the petitioner that his conduct in the precincts of the Court was not proper and that, if he continued to indulge in that course of conduct, steps would be taken under the Legal Practitioners Act. The Munsif might not have put the warning in as proper a language as we might think that he ought to have used and he might even have used more harsh language in his warning to the petitioner than was necessary.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. But this is a purely departmental matter which the petitioner ought to have brought to the notice of the Munsif&#8217;s departmental superiors. There is no foundation for the petitioner&#8217;s treating the matter as judicial order of the Munsif or an order passed under any &#8220;powers given under the Legal Practitioners Act and for his trying to have it revised as if it were such on order. The difficulty of treating the matter as judicial was felt when the case was argued as I could not see whether the Government Pleader or the Munsif or the Bar Association or anybody could and ought to be heard on the other side. I would, therefore, reject this petition as misconceived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Ravinuthala Venkatappiah vs The Secretary Of State For India In &#8230; on 24 September, 1912 Equivalent citations: 16 Ind Cas 895 Author: S Aiyar Bench: S Aiyar, S Aiyar JUDGMENT Sundara Aiyar, J. 1. 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