{"id":28136,"date":"2010-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-s-k-kannan-vs-secretary-to-government-on-16-february-2010"},"modified":"2017-03-12T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T15:20:02","slug":"n-s-k-kannan-vs-secretary-to-government-on-16-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-s-k-kannan-vs-secretary-to-government-on-16-february-2010","title":{"rendered":"N.S.K.Kannan vs Secretary To Government on 16 February, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">N.S.K.Kannan vs Secretary To Government on 16 February, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDated 16.2.2010\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR\n\nWrit Petition No.44757 of 2006\n \n\nN.S.K.Kannan                                                        ... Applicant  \n\n-Vs.-\n\nSecretary to Government,\nHome (Transport-II) Department,\nFort St. George,\nChennai-9.                                                     ... Respondent \n\n\n\tOriginal Application No.6142 of 1999 was filed before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal, Madras Bench praying to quash the letter of the respondent in his letter No.40543\/Tr.II\/98-20 dated 30.4.1999 and consequently direct the respondent to promote the applicant as Regional Transport Officer from the date of promotion of this immediate juniors with all consequential monetary and service benefits.  Since the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal was abolished, the O.A.  was received by transfer and numbered as Writ Petition. \t\t\n\n\tFor petitioner       :  Mr.S.Ravi, \t \n\n\tFor respondent     :  Mr.Sivashanmugam\n\t\t\t   Government Advocate \t           \n\n                            -----                         \nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\t Learned counsel for the petitioner states that the applicant\/petitioner  died in 2007.  He also made endorsement to that effect.   In view of the same, the proceedings abates.  No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>ts \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>Secretary to Government,<br \/>\nHome (Transport-II) Department,<br \/>\nFort St. George,<br \/>\nChennai 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court N.S.K.Kannan vs Secretary To Government on 16 February, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS Dated 16.2.2010 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR Writ Petition No.44757 of 2006 N.S.K.Kannan &#8230; Applicant -Vs.- Secretary to Government, Home (Transport-II) Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-9. &#8230; Respondent Original Application No.6142 of 1999 was filed [&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-28136","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>N.S.K.Kannan vs Secretary To Government on 16 February, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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