{"id":247299,"date":"2007-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mary-francis-vs-kerala-state-electricity-board-on-18-july-2007"},"modified":"2019-01-26T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T03:53:12","slug":"mary-francis-vs-kerala-state-electricity-board-on-18-july-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mary-francis-vs-kerala-state-electricity-board-on-18-july-2007","title":{"rendered":"Mary Francis vs Kerala State Electricity Board on 18 July, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mary Francis vs Kerala State Electricity Board on 18 July, 2007<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 33664 of 2004(G)\n\n\n1. MARY FRANCIS, AGED 52,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. KERALA STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE ENGINEER,\n\n3. DEPUTY COLLECTOR (L.A),\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.K.G.SARATHKUMAR\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.C.C.THOMAS, SC, K.S.E.B\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\n\n Dated :18\/07\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                         KURIAN JOSEPH, J.\n               ---------------------------------------\n                  W.P. (C). NO. 33664 OF 2004\n               ---------------------------------------\n             Dated this the 18th day of July, 2007.\n\n                           J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">      This writ petition is filed with the following prayers:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"blockquote_1\"><p>           I)     Call for the records in connection with the<\/p>\n<p>           Exhibit P1 notice, and assessment of value of trees cut<\/p>\n<p>           and removed from petitioner&#8217;s property.<\/p>\n<p>           II)    Issue a writ of mandamus or such other writ,<\/p>\n<p>           direction or order directing the respondents to disburse<\/p>\n<p>           the compensation of amount of Rs. 11,000\/- with 12%<\/p>\n<p>           interest per annum from 1994 immediately to the<\/p>\n<p>           petitioner.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote id=\"blockquote_1\"><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1\">      2. In case admitted amounts have not already been paid,<\/p>\n<p>petitioner may approach the second respondent, in which case,<\/p>\n<p>appropriate action in that regard will be taken by the second<\/p>\n<p>respondent within a period of another three months. In case the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner has still any grievance left, it will be open to her to<\/p>\n<p>workout the relief under the provisions of the Indian Telegraphs<\/p>\n<p>Act before the District Court.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">      This writ petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">                                           KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">smp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Mary Francis vs Kerala State Electricity Board on 18 July, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 33664 of 2004(G) 1. MARY FRANCIS, AGED 52, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. KERALA STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, 3. DEPUTY COLLECTOR (L.A), For Petitioner :SRI.K.G.SARATHKUMAR For [&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-247299","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>Mary Francis vs Kerala State Electricity Board on 18 July, 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\/mary-francis-vs-kerala-state-electricity-board-on-18-july-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mary Francis vs Kerala State Electricity Board on 18 July, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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