{"id":227107,"date":"2007-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-kerala-vs-v-kannan-on-26-june-2007"},"modified":"2015-06-10T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T23:28:08","slug":"state-of-kerala-vs-v-kannan-on-26-june-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-kerala-vs-v-kannan-on-26-june-2007","title":{"rendered":"State Of Kerala vs V.Kannan on 26 June, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">State Of Kerala vs V.Kannan on 26 June, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWA No. 1504 of 2007()\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. THE COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES,\n3. THE COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER,\n4. THE COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER, (ASSESSMENT)\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. V.KANNAN, S\/O. CHANDRAN, AGED 53 YEARS,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. V.K.MUHAMMED, S\/O. M.KHADER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.V.RAMKUMAR NAMBIAR\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Justice MR.H.L.DATTU\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.T.SANKARAN\n\n Dated :26\/06\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                                 H.L.DATTU, C.J.   &amp;   K.T.SANKARAN, J.\n\n                               -------------------------------------------------------------\n\n                                                 W.A.Nos.1504 of 2007\n\n                               ------------------------------------------------------------\n\n                                 Dated, this the   26th   day of June,  2007\n\n\n                                                  JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>H.L.Dattu, C.J.\n<\/p>\n<p>            This writ  appeal is filed by the  State  against the orders  passed by the<\/p>\n<p>learned Single Judge in W.P.(C) No.5308 of 2007 dated 16th March, 2007.\n<\/p>\n<p>            2.       We   find   no   merit   in   the   writ   appeal.     The   order   passed   by   the<\/p>\n<p>learned Single judge is in consonance with the Constitution Bench decision of<\/p>\n<p>the Hon&#8217;ble Supreme Court                 in <a href=\"\/doc\/1118022\/\">Sunrise Associates v. Government of NCT of<\/p>\n<p>Delhi &amp; Ors.<\/a> [(2006) 5 SCC 603].   Accordingly, the writ appeal requires to be<\/p>\n<p>rejected and it is rejected.  Ordered accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                              (H.L.DATTU)<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                 CHIEF JUSTICE<\/p>\n<p>                                                                           (K.T.SANKARAN)<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                   JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>mt\/-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court State Of Kerala vs V.Kannan on 26 June, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WA No. 1504 of 2007() 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY &#8230; Petitioner 2. THE COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES, 3. THE COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER, 4. THE COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER, (ASSESSMENT) Vs 1. V.KANNAN, S\/O. CHANDRAN, [&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-227107","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 v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Of Kerala vs V.Kannan on 26 June, 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\/state-of-kerala-vs-v-kannan-on-26-june-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State Of Kerala vs V.Kannan on 26 June, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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