{"id":6208,"date":"2000-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-06-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-saravanan-minor-rep-by-vs-the-chief-judge-court-of-small-on-16-june-2000"},"modified":"2017-02-13T01:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T20:28:48","slug":"s-saravanan-minor-rep-by-vs-the-chief-judge-court-of-small-on-16-june-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-saravanan-minor-rep-by-vs-the-chief-judge-court-of-small-on-16-june-2000","title":{"rendered":"S. Saravanan (Minor) Rep. By &#8230; vs The Chief Judge Court Of Small &#8230; on 16 June, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">S. Saravanan (Minor) Rep. By &#8230; vs The Chief Judge Court Of Small &#8230; on 16 June, 2000<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: II (2000) ACC 677, 2000 (3) CTC 11, (2000) IIMLJ 804<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: A Raman<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. The petitioner herein filed an application to condone the delay of<br \/>\n2134 days in representation of M.A.C.T.O.P.SR.No.28961 of 1993. The<br \/>\npetitioner is a minor. He met with an accident on 11.3.1993. When the<br \/>\nAutorickshaw TSD 5830 dashed against him white he was walking. In that<br \/>\naccident the petitioner who was a school going child aged about seven years<br \/>\nsustained fractures in his right leg. It is stated that on account of the injuries<br \/>\nsustained the petitioner has been practically crippled and that he cannot lead a<br \/>\nnormal healthy life hereafter. The Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes,<br \/>\nChennai dismissed the petition filed on 29.2.2000 and aggrieved by the same<br \/>\nthe present revision is filed.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. It is not a case of delay in presentations but it is only a case of delay in re-presentation. The Act has now amended and no limitation is prescribed for preferring a claim. In these circumstances, the petitioner&#8217;s request ought to have been considered by the lower court on compassionate ground. Hyper<\/p>\n<p>technicalities should not sway the mind of the court nor such rigid stance is called for. The Presiding Officer cannot adopt a wooden attitude, when such a request is made. Such technicalities will put only shackles upon the cause of justice. After all rules are only handmaids of justice. The non-examination of the petitioner or his counsel is of no consequence. It is stated in the affidavit that the counsel, who appeared for the petitioner earlier on had died. On going through the order passed by the lower court, I feel that the lower court has taken an unduly narrow view of the matter. Instead of considering such a request in the background of compassion and injustice, the lower court has unnecessarily got bogged down by hyper technically. In the circumstances, I feel that the order passed by the lower court is against the principles of natural justice and hence, this is a fit case where the order passed by the lower court ought to be interfered with under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. Consequently, the revision petition is allowed. The delay in re-presentation is condoned. The lower court (The Chief Judge, Court of Small Causes, Chennai) Shall take the case on file and issue notice to the respondents and proceed to dispose of the case in accordance with law and in merits within six months from the date of receipt of the copy of this order. No costs. Consequently, CMP.No.8070 of 2000 is closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court S. Saravanan (Minor) Rep. By &#8230; vs The Chief Judge Court Of Small &#8230; on 16 June, 2000 Equivalent citations: II (2000) ACC 677, 2000 (3) CTC 11, (2000) IIMLJ 804 Bench: A Raman ORDER 1. The petitioner herein filed an application to condone the delay of 2134 days in representation of [&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-6208","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 v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S. Saravanan (Minor) Rep. 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