{"id":41221,"date":"2011-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-balasundaram-vs-the-secretary-on-7-january-2011"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T17:15:14","slug":"m-balasundaram-vs-the-secretary-on-7-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-balasundaram-vs-the-secretary-on-7-january-2011","title":{"rendered":"M.Balasundaram vs The Secretary on 7 January, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M.Balasundaram vs The Secretary on 7 January, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDATE:07.01.2011  \n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN\n\nWrit Petition No.291 of 2011\n\n\nM.Balasundaram\t\t\t....\t\t\tPetitioner\n\n\t..Vs..\n\n1. The Secretary,\n    Regional Transport Authority,\n    Salem-West.\n\n2.The Regional Transport Authority,\n   Salem-West.\t\t\t\t....\t\tRespondents \t\n\n\nPrayer: Petition filed seeking for a writ of Mandamus, directing the 1st Respondent herein to receive the petitioner's appli1cation dated 28.11.2010 along with the Demand Draft for the grant of mini bus permit for the route, \"Elampillai to Attayampatty\" and consequently direct the 2nd Respondent to consider the said application forthwith.\n\n\t\tFor Petitioner\t  : Mr.A.Ganesan\n\n\t\tFor Respondent    :  Mr.S.Gopinathan\n\t\t\t\t\t     Additional Government Pleader \nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\tHeard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Additional Government Pleader appearing for the respondents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2. At this stage of the hearing of the writ petition, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner has submitted that it would suffice, if the first respondent is directed to receive the petitioner&#8217;s application, dated 28.11.2010, and to forward the same to the second respondent and if the second respondent is directed to consider the same on merits and in accordance with law, within a specified period.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t3. The learned Additional Government Pleader appearing on behalf of the respondents, has no objection for such an order being passed by this Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t4. In view of the submissions made by the learned counsels appearing on either side, the first respondent is directed to receive the petitioner&#8217;s application, dated 28.11.2010, for the grant of mini bus permit, for the route, Elampillai to Attayampatty,if it is in order, and forward the same to the second respondent. On receipt of the said application, the second respondent is directed to consider the same, on merits and in accordance with law and pass appropriate orders thereon, within a period of 8 weeks thereafter. However, it is made clear that this Court, by this order, has not expressed any opinion on the merits of the matter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\tThe writ petition is disposed of accordingly. No costs. Consequently, connected Miscallenous Petition is closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>arr<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1. The Secretary,<br \/>\n    Regional Transport Authority,<br \/>\n    Salem-West.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Regional Transport Authority,<br \/>\n   Salem West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court M.Balasundaram vs The Secretary on 7 January, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATE:07.01.2011 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN Writ Petition No.291 of 2011 M.Balasundaram &#8230;. Petitioner ..Vs.. 1. The Secretary, Regional Transport Authority, Salem-West. 2.The Regional Transport Authority, Salem-West. &#8230;. Respondents Prayer: Petition filed seeking for a writ [&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-41221","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M.Balasundaram vs The Secretary on 7 January, 2011 - 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\/m-balasundaram-vs-the-secretary-on-7-january-2011\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M.Balasundaram vs The Secretary on 7 January, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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