{"id":250118,"date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/v-achuthankutty-vs-sales-tax-officer-on-23-may-2008"},"modified":"2017-01-04T13:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T08:01:25","slug":"v-achuthankutty-vs-sales-tax-officer-on-23-may-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/v-achuthankutty-vs-sales-tax-officer-on-23-may-2008","title":{"rendered":"V.Achuthankutty vs Sales Tax Officer on 23 May, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">V.Achuthankutty vs Sales Tax Officer on 23 May, 2008<\/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. 30621 of 2004(U)\n\n\n1. V.ACHUTHANKUTTY, FORMER, PROPRIETOR,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. SALES TAX OFFICER, 1ST CIRCLE,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE APPELLATE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER\n\n3. DEPUTY TAHSILDAR (RR), KANAYANOOR TALUK,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.C.S.AJITH PRAKASH\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\n\n Dated :23\/05\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                         KURIAN JOSEPH, J.\n               ---------------------------------------\n                  W.P.(C) No. 30621 OF 2004\n               ---------------------------------------\n             Dated this the 23rd day of May, 2008.\n\n\n                           J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">      In case Exhibit P3 appeal filed by the petitioner has not so<\/p>\n<p>far been disposed of, the same shall be disposed of within a<\/p>\n<p>period of three months from the date of production of a copy of<\/p>\n<p>this judgment. Interim order passed by this Court will continue<\/p>\n<p>till such time.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">      This writ petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">                                        KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">smp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court V.Achuthankutty vs Sales Tax Officer on 23 May, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 30621 of 2004(U) 1. V.ACHUTHANKUTTY, FORMER, PROPRIETOR, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. SALES TAX OFFICER, 1ST CIRCLE, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE APPELLATE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER 3. DEPUTY TAHSILDAR (RR), KANAYANOOR TALUK, For Petitioner :SRI.C.S.AJITH PRAKASH 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-250118","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>V.Achuthankutty vs Sales Tax Officer on 23 May, 2008 - 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\/v-achuthankutty-vs-sales-tax-officer-on-23-may-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"V.Achuthankutty vs Sales Tax Officer on 23 May, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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