{"id":97363,"date":"2011-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/p-sudhakar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-9-april-2011"},"modified":"2015-02-25T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T05:59:37","slug":"p-sudhakar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-9-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/p-sudhakar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-9-april-2011","title":{"rendered":"P.Sudhakar vs The Secretary To Government on 9 April, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">P.Sudhakar vs The Secretary To Government on 9 April, 2011<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDATED: 09.04.2011\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN\n\nWrit Petition No.35498 of 2006\n\n\nP.Sudhakar\t\t\t\t                         \t[ PETITIONER  ]\n\nVs\n\n1.The Secretary to Government,\n   Home (Police V) Department,\n   Fort St. George, Chennai  9.\n\n2.The Director General of Police,\n   Dr.Radhakrishnan Salai,\n   Mylapore, Chennai  4.\t\n\n3.The Chairman,\n   Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services,\n   Recruitment Board, Adyar\n   Chennai  600 020.\t\t\t\t         [ RESPONDENTS ]\n\n\tWrit Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for a writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to select and appoint the petitioner as Sub - Inspector of Police inpursuance of his participation in the selection of Sub Inpsector of Police under the Direct \nrecruitment quota of men for the year 1997 -1998.\n\t\t   For petitioner    :  Mr.R.Sampath Kumar\n\t\t   For respondents :  Mrs.D.Geetha, AGP\t\t\t\n O 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.<br \/>\nM.JAICHANDREN J.,<br \/>\ncse\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2. At this stage of the hearing of the writ petition, the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents had pointed out that a number of writ petitions, with similar prayers, have already been dismissed by this Court, on the ground of &#8216;Latches&#8217;. It has been stated that such orders have been passed by this Court, in W.P.Nos.2711, 30774 to 30776, 11850, 13932, 14954, 14955, 16482 to 16487 of 2005 and in other similar writ petitions. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed on the ground of &#8216;Latches&#8217;. No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1.The Secretary to Government,<br \/>\n   Home (Police V) Department,<br \/>\n   Fort St. George, Chennai  9.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Director General of Police,<br \/>\n   Dr.Radhakrishnan Salai,<br \/>\n   Mylapore, Chennai  4.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.The Chairman,<br \/>\n   Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services,<br \/>\n   Recruitment Board, Adyar<br \/>\n   Chennai 600 020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court P.Sudhakar vs The Secretary To Government on 9 April, 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 09.04.2011 CORAM THE HON&#8217;BLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN Writ Petition No.35498 of 2006 P.Sudhakar [ PETITIONER ] Vs 1.The Secretary to Government, Home (Police V) Department, Fort St. George, Chennai 9. 2.The Director General 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-97363","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 v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>P.Sudhakar vs The Secretary To Government on 9 April, 2011 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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