{"id":82032,"date":"2008-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-j-james-vs-the-president-on-10-november-2008"},"modified":"2015-05-03T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T09:51:11","slug":"n-j-james-vs-the-president-on-10-november-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-j-james-vs-the-president-on-10-november-2008","title":{"rendered":"N.J.James vs The President on 10 November, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">N.J.James vs The President on 10 November, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 32706 of 2008(R)\n\n\n1. N.J.JAMES, MANAGING PARTNER, NEERAKKAL\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE PRESIDENT, ELANJI PANCHAYAT,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE ELANJI GRAMA PANCHAYAT, ELANJI\n\n3. P.A.JOSEPH, OLICKAL HOUSE, MONIPPALLI.PO\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.G.ARUN\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :10\/11\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                       S.SIRI JAGAN, J\n                 ==================\n                  W.P(C)No.32706 of 2008\n                 ==================\n       Dated this the 10th day of November, 2008.\n\n                       J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>      Adv.P.Ramakrishnan      takes    notice  on    behalf   of<\/p>\n<p>respondents 1 and 2. Adv. Biji Mathew takes notice on behalf<\/p>\n<p>of the 3rd respondent.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The petitioner in the writ petition intends to start a<\/p>\n<p>crusher unit in his property.      The petitioner has filed an<\/p>\n<p>application for licence in respect of the same. The grievance of<\/p>\n<p>the petitioner is that the application for licence is not being<\/p>\n<p>considered by the 2nd respondent &#8211; Panchayat. The standing<\/p>\n<p>counsel for the Panchayat would submit that the application<\/p>\n<p>for licence is not being considered because of the pendency of<\/p>\n<p>the W.P.(C)No. 26540\/2008 filed by the 3rd respondent in<\/p>\n<p>respect of the establishment of the unit. I have today disposed<\/p>\n<p>of the said writ petition and as such there cannot be any<\/p>\n<p>objection in considering the application filed by the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>for licence.\n<\/p>\n<p>      2. I have heard the learned counsel for the 3rd respondent<\/p>\n<p>also.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">W.P(C)No.32706 of 2008         &#8211; 2 &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>     In the facts and circumstances of the case, the writ<\/p>\n<p>petition is disposed of with a direction to the 2nd respondent to<\/p>\n<p>consider and pass appropriate orders on the application for<\/p>\n<p>licence stated to have been submitted by the petitioner, after<\/p>\n<p>affording an opportunity of being heard to the petitioner as<\/p>\n<p>well as the 3rd respondent, as expeditiously as possible, at any<\/p>\n<p>rate, within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this<\/p>\n<p>judgment.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                       S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>rhs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court N.J.James vs The President on 10 November, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 32706 of 2008(R) 1. N.J.JAMES, MANAGING PARTNER, NEERAKKAL &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. THE PRESIDENT, ELANJI PANCHAYAT, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE ELANJI GRAMA PANCHAYAT, ELANJI 3. P.A.JOSEPH, OLICKAL HOUSE, MONIPPALLI.PO For Petitioner :SRI.V.G.ARUN For Respondent : [&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":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-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.J.James vs The President on 10 November, 2008 - 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\/n-j-james-vs-the-president-on-10-november-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"N.J.James vs The President on 10 November, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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