{"id":38250,"date":"1914-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1914-02-16T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-paramananda-nadar-vs-karunakara-doss-and-anr-on-17-february-1914"},"modified":"2018-11-05T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:47:00","slug":"s-paramananda-nadar-vs-karunakara-doss-and-anr-on-17-february-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-paramananda-nadar-vs-karunakara-doss-and-anr-on-17-february-1914","title":{"rendered":"S. Paramananda Nadar vs Karunakara Doss And Anr. on 17 February, 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">S. Paramananda Nadar vs Karunakara Doss And Anr. on 17 February, 1914<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1914) 27 MLJ 617<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. The complaint in this case was preferred by the present petitioner purporting to act in virtue of an express authorisation by the Municipal Secretary to whom the powers of the Chairman under Section 280 District Municipalities Act are said to have been delegated under Section 39 A. It is clearly not competent for the Municipal Council to withdraw the complaint and the complainant has not withdrawn it-\n<\/p>\n<p>2. We set aside the order of acquittal passed under Section 248 of the Criminal Procedure Code and direct the Magistrate to restore the case to his file and dispose of it according to law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court S. Paramananda Nadar vs Karunakara Doss And Anr. on 17 February, 1914 Equivalent citations: (1914) 27 MLJ 617 ORDER 1. The complaint in this case was preferred by the present petitioner purporting to act in virtue of an express authorisation by the Municipal Secretary to whom the powers of the Chairman under [&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-38250","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>S. 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