{"id":250694,"date":"2011-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-chairmanms-hindustan-lever-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-23-november-2011"},"modified":"2017-12-30T03:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T21:39:30","slug":"the-chairmanms-hindustan-lever-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-23-november-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-chairmanms-hindustan-lever-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-23-november-2011","title":{"rendered":"The Chairman,M\/S Hindustan Lever &#8230; vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 23 November, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court &#8211; Orders<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Chairman,M\/S Hindustan Lever &#8230; vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 23 November, 2011<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA\n                                     Letters Patent Appeal No.1308 of 2011\n                                                       In\n                                Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 15398 of 2008\n                                                      With\n                                  Interlocutory Application No. 6416 of 2011\n                                                      And\n                                  Interlocutory Application No. 6417 of 2011\n                                                       In\n                                   In Letters Patent Appeal No. 1308 of 2011\n                   ======================================================\n                   The Chairman, M\/S Hindustan Lever Limited\n                                                                           .... .... Appellant\n                                                     Versus\n                    Union of India &amp; Ors\n                                                                        .... .... Respondents\n                   ======================================================\n                   Appearance :\n                   For the Appellant        : Mr. N.K. Agrawal, Senior Advocate with\n                                                Mr. Jayanta Ray Chaudhary, Advocate\n                   For Union of India        : Mr. Kalpana, CGC\n                   For the Respondents\/\n                   Opposite Party No. 4       : Mr. Rai Kamal, Advocate.\n                   ======================================================\n                   CORAM: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE\n                              and\n                              HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA PRASAD\n                              VERMA\n                   ORAL ORDER<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">                   (Per: HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE)<\/p>\n<p>4      23-11-2011 Re: Interlocutory Application No. 6417 of 2011<\/p>\n<p>                            The delay of 57 days occurred in filing the Letters Patent<\/p>\n<p>                   Appeal is condoned.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">                            Interlocutory Application stands disposed of.<\/p>\n<p>                   Re: Letters Patent Appeal No. 1308 of 2011 and Interlocutory<\/p>\n<p>                   Application No. 6416 of 2011<\/p>\n<p>                            Notify for admission.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">\n<p id=\"p_3\">                                              (R.M. Doshit, CJ)<\/p>\n<p>Devendra\/-                              (Birendra Prasad Verma, J)\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court &#8211; Orders The Chairman,M\/S Hindustan Lever &#8230; vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 23 November, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Letters Patent Appeal No.1308 of 2011 In Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 15398 of 2008 With Interlocutory Application No. 6416 of 2011 And Interlocutory Application No. 6417 [&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":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-patna-high-court-orders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Chairman,M\/S Hindustan Lever ... vs Union Of India &amp; 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