{"id":75547,"date":"1940-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1940-11-28T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-president-pakkam-panchayat-vs-munuswami-reddy-on-29-november-1940"},"modified":"2014-07-05T03:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:27:26","slug":"the-president-pakkam-panchayat-vs-munuswami-reddy-on-29-november-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-president-pakkam-panchayat-vs-munuswami-reddy-on-29-november-1940","title":{"rendered":"The President, Pakkam Panchayat &#8230; vs Munuswami Reddy on 29 November, 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The President, Pakkam Panchayat &#8230; vs Munuswami Reddy on 29 November, 1940<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1941) 1 MLJ 720<\/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 Sub-Magistrate has in effect found the accused guilty of the offence under Section 207 of the Madras Local Boards Act and the acquittal of the accused on the ground that the result of his objection petition was not communicated to him is unsustainable. The acquittal is therefore set aside and there will be a re-trial of the accused in accordance with law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court The President, Pakkam Panchayat &#8230; vs Munuswami Reddy on 29 November, 1940 Equivalent citations: (1941) 1 MLJ 720 Author: L Rao ORDER Lakshmana Rao, J. 1. The Sub-Magistrate has in effect found the accused guilty of the offence under Section 207 of the Madras Local Boards Act and the acquittal of the [&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-75547","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>The President, Pakkam Panchayat ... vs Munuswami Reddy on 29 November, 1940 - 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\/the-president-pakkam-panchayat-vs-munuswami-reddy-on-29-november-1940\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The President, Pakkam Panchayat ... vs Munuswami Reddy on 29 November, 1940 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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