{"id":26521,"date":"2007-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/r-kasturi-rep-by-her-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-february-2007"},"modified":"2014-12-03T06:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T01:07:47","slug":"r-kasturi-rep-by-her-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-february-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/r-kasturi-rep-by-her-vs-the-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-23-february-2007","title":{"rendered":"R. Kasturi Rep. By Her vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 23 February, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">R. Kasturi Rep. By Her vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 23 February, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n           In the High Court of Judicature at Madras\n\n                     Dated:  23.02.2007\n \n                          Coram:\n\n\n           The Honourable Mr.Justice P.SATHASIVAM\n                             and\n       The Honourable Mr.Justice N. PAUL VASANTHAKUMAR\n                              \n\n               Writ Petition No.19992 of 2004\n                              \n                              \n\nR. Kasturi rep. by her\nPower Agent M. Chandru.                 ..Petitioner\n\n\n\t                    ..vs..\n\n\n1.The State of Tamil Nadu\n  rep. by its Secretary to Government\n  Housing &amp; Urban Development Dept.\n  Chennai 600 009.\n \n2.The Member Secretary\n  Chennai Metropolitan\n  Development Authority\n  Thalamuthu Natarajan Maligai\n  No.8, Gandhi Irwin Road\n  Egmore, Chennai 600 008.           ..Respondents\n\n\n\n       Writ   petition  filed  under  Article  226  of   the\n\nConstitution  of India, praying for issuance of  a  writ  of\n\nDeclaration as stated therein.\n\n\n\n          For Petitioner  : Mr. S. Sundaresan\n\n          For Respondents : Mr. J. Ravindran for R.2\n                            Mr. P. Subramanian\n                            Govt. Advocate for R.1\n\n\n\n                            ORDER\n<\/pre>\n<p>     (Order of the Court was made by P.SATHASIVAM,J.)<\/p>\n<p>      Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to<\/p>\n<p>withdraw  the  above  writ petition  and  he  also  made  an<\/p>\n<p>endorsement   to   that  effect  in   the   writ   petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, permission is granted and the writ petition  is<\/p>\n<p>dismissed as withdrawn. No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>kh<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1.The Secretary to Government<br \/>\n  State of Tamil Nadu<br \/>\n Housing &amp; Urban Development Dept.<br \/>\n  Chennai 600 009.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Member Secretary<br \/>\n  Chennai Metropolitan<br \/>\n Development Authority<br \/>\n Thalamuthu Natarajan Maligai<br \/>\n No.8, Gandhi Irwin Road<br \/>\n Egmore, Chennai 600 008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court R. Kasturi Rep. By Her vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 23 February, 2007 In the High Court of Judicature at Madras Dated: 23.02.2007 Coram: The Honourable Mr.Justice P.SATHASIVAM and The Honourable Mr.Justice N. PAUL VASANTHAKUMAR Writ Petition No.19992 of 2004 R. Kasturi rep. by her Power Agent M. Chandru. ..Petitioner [&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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. Kasturi Rep. 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