{"id":255674,"date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-k-mathen-vs-the-tahsilder-on-26-november-2007"},"modified":"2016-01-30T15:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T09:50:42","slug":"c-k-mathen-vs-the-tahsilder-on-26-november-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-k-mathen-vs-the-tahsilder-on-26-november-2007","title":{"rendered":"C.K.Mathen vs The Tahsilder on 26 November, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">C.K.Mathen vs The Tahsilder on 26 November, 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. 10241 of 2004(T)\n\n\n1. C.K.MATHEN, CHIRAMEL HOUSE,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE TAHSILDER, KUTTANAD TALUK.\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR, ALAPPUZHA.\n\n3. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY CHIEF\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN\n\n                For Respondent  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\n\n Dated :26\/11\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                          KURIAN JOSEPH J.\n               ----------------------------------------------\n             Writ Petition (Civil) No.10241 of 2004\n               ----------------------------------------------\n                  Dated 26th November, 2007.\n\n                           J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">            Petitioner is aggrieved by Ext.P4 order passed by the<\/p>\n<p>District Collector, declining to assign the land as requested by the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner on the ground that the land in the application is &#8216;thodu<\/p>\n<p>Puramboke&#8217;. Petitioner submits that he has already approached<\/p>\n<p>the Tahsildar for assignment as per Ext.P5.              I am afraid, the<\/p>\n<p>Tahsildar cannot be directed to take action on Ext.P5, since the<\/p>\n<p>District Collector has already turned down the application as per<\/p>\n<p>Ext.P4.   It is for the petitioner, if so advised, to approach the<\/p>\n<p>Government, in which case, the matter will be duly considered by<\/p>\n<p>the Government with notice to the petitioner              and appropriate<\/p>\n<p>action in accordance with law will be taken within another four<\/p>\n<p>months.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">            The writ petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">                                            KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">tgs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court C.K.Mathen vs The Tahsilder on 26 November, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 10241 of 2004(T) 1. C.K.MATHEN, CHIRAMEL HOUSE, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. THE TAHSILDER, KUTTANAD TALUK. &#8230; Respondent 2. THE DISTRICT COLLECTOR, ALAPPUZHA. 3. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY CHIEF For Petitioner :SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN For Respondent :GOVERNMENT [&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-255674","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>C.K.Mathen vs The Tahsilder on 26 November, 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\/c-k-mathen-vs-the-tahsilder-on-26-november-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"C.K.Mathen vs The Tahsilder on 26 November, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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