{"id":32970,"date":"1940-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1940-02-21T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-gopalaswamy-rao-license-vs-chinna-ponnuswamy-chetty-on-22-february-1940"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T14:50:54","slug":"n-gopalaswamy-rao-license-vs-chinna-ponnuswamy-chetty-on-22-february-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-gopalaswamy-rao-license-vs-chinna-ponnuswamy-chetty-on-22-february-1940","title":{"rendered":"N. Gopalaswamy Rao, License &#8230; vs Chinna Ponnuswamy Chetty on 22 February, 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">N. Gopalaswamy Rao, License &#8230; vs Chinna Ponnuswamy Chetty on 22 February, 1940<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1940) 1 MLJ 598<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: L Rao<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>Lakshmana Rao, J.<\/p>\n<p>1. The accused was prosecuted for failure to comply with a requisi ion under Section 164 Clause 2 of the Madras Local Boards Act and he has been acquitted on the ground that the Local Board should establish its title and possession of the land in the Civil Court before invoking the provisions of the Madras Local Boards Act. This is obviously erroneous and it in incumbent on the Magistrate to decide the legality or otherwise of the requisition. The order of acquittal is therefore set aside and there will be a retrial in accordance with law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court N. Gopalaswamy Rao, License &#8230; vs Chinna Ponnuswamy Chetty on 22 February, 1940 Equivalent citations: (1940) 1 MLJ 598 Author: L Rao ORDER Lakshmana Rao, J. 1. The accused was prosecuted for failure to comply with a requisi ion under Section 164 Clause 2 of the Madras Local Boards Act and he [&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-32970","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. 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