{"id":231680,"date":"2008-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-t-gopalan-vs-the-assistant-commissioner-on-18-july-2008"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T11:49:36","slug":"sri-t-gopalan-vs-the-assistant-commissioner-on-18-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-t-gopalan-vs-the-assistant-commissioner-on-18-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"Sri.T.Gopalan vs The Assistant Commissioner on 18 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sri.T.Gopalan vs The Assistant Commissioner on 18 July, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 10550 of 2005(E)\n\n\n1. SRI.T.GOPALAN,(PGT),\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. P.KRISHNAN, QUARTERS NO.A1,\n3. USHA M., QUARTERS NO.A2,\n4. MR.C.J.JOSEPH, QUARTERS NO.A3, DO.DO.\n5. THANKAPPAN S.,\n6. A.T.SATHI DEVI, QUARTERS NO.B1, DO.DO.\n7. MRS. REENA N.M.,\n8. MRS.SUBRAMANI,\n9. MRS. SUNANDA,\n10. ANITHA P., QUARTERS NO.B5, DO.DO.\n11. PRASAD,\n12. PUSHPARAJAN, QUARTRERS NO.B7,\n13. RATHEESH, QUARTERS NO.B8,\n14. P.E.VENUGOPAL, QUARTERS NO.C1, DO.DO.\n15. JAYAPRAKSH, QUARTERS NO.C2,\n16. P.P.HASHIM, QUARTERS NO.C4, DO.DO.\n17. MRIDULA GOKULDAS,\n18. P.V.SUDHAKARAN, QUARTERS NO.C6,\n19. SUJATHA N.KUTTY, QUARTERS NO.C7, DO.DO.\n20. C.M.VALSAN, QUARTERS NO.C8,\n21. VELAYUDHAN K.P.,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE COMMISSIONER, KENDRIYA\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.A.MOHAMED MUSTAQUE\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.V.V.ASOKAN\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\n\n Dated :18\/07\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                         KURIAN JOSEPH, J.\n              ---------------------------------------\n                    W.P.(C) No.10550 OF 2005\n              ---------------------------------------\n            Dated this the 18th day of July, 2008.\n\n\n                           J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>     This writ petition is filed with the following prayers:<\/p>\n<p>     i)   Issue a writ of mandamus or such other writ directing<\/p>\n<p>          the 1st respondent to consider and dispose of Exhibit P3<\/p>\n<p>          representation submitted by the petitioners and other<\/p>\n<p>          similar representations submitted by the remaining<\/p>\n<p>          petitioners after giving them an opportunity of being<\/p>\n<p>          heard.\n<\/p>\n<p>     ii)  Issue a writ of mandamus or such other writ directing<\/p>\n<p>          the respondents to take steps to provide separate<\/p>\n<p>          electricity connections to each staff quarters occupied by<\/p>\n<p>          the petitioners and to allow the petitioners to pay their<\/p>\n<p>          electricity charges at the domestic rates directly to the<\/p>\n<p>          electricity department.\n<\/p>\n<p>     There will be a direction to the first respondent to take<\/p>\n<p>appropriate action on Exhibit P3 and other representations, with<\/p>\n<p>notice to the petitioners, within a period of three months from<\/p>\n<p>the date of production of a copy of this judgment.<\/p>\n<p>     This writ petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p>                                          KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE.\n<\/p>\n<p>smp<\/p>\n<p>  KURIAN JOSEPH, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>W.P.(C) No. 10550 OF 2005<\/p>\n<p>     J U D G M E N T<\/p>\n<p>       18.07.2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Sri.T.Gopalan vs The Assistant Commissioner on 18 July, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 10550 of 2005(E) 1. 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