{"id":99089,"date":"2009-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-b-murugesan-vs-the-commissioner-on-27-april-2009"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T10:29:14","slug":"m-b-murugesan-vs-the-commissioner-on-27-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-b-murugesan-vs-the-commissioner-on-27-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"M.B.Murugesan vs The Commissioner on 27 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M.B.Murugesan vs The Commissioner on 27 April, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\nDATE: 27-04-2009\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN\n\nWrit Petition No.992 of 2004\nand\nW.P.M.P.No.1012 of 2004\n\n\nM.B.Murugesan     \t\t\t                        \t...   Petitioner\n\nVersus\n\n1.The Commissioner,\n   Tuticorin Municipality,\n   Tuticorin-628 001. \n\n2.Ramachandran                                                            ...  Respondents\n\nPrayer: This petition has been filed seeking for a writ of Certiorari, calling for the notice No.A2.2672\/03, dated 26.12.2003 on the file of the Commissioner, Tuticorin Municipality, Tuticorin-628 001 (the first respondent herein) and to quash the same. \n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t    For Petitioner \t       :  Mr.S.Subbiah\n\n \n\n\t\t    For Respondents    :  Mr.V.Raghupathi for R-1   \n    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t  Mr.D.Krishnakumar for R-2\n\n\nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\tHeard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned  counsel  appearing for the respondents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2.  The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner had submitted that the land and building situated in Town Survey No.2 (Part) in B-Block in Municipal Ward No.6 in Sankaraperi Village, corresponding to Old Survey No.38 to an extent of 5.85 cents and the old building therein had been assessed in the name of the petitioner.  However, by the impugned order, dated 26.12.2003, the first respondent had cancelled the assessment of property tax made in the name of the petitioner stating that the patta granted in favour of the petitioner&#8217;s mother had been cancelled by the Sub Collector, Tuticorin and it had been become final.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t3.  The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents had submitted that the writ petition is not maintainable before this Court, under Article 226 of Constitution of India,   since it involves questions of fact to be decided by way of civil proceedings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t4.  In view of the submissions made by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner, as well as the respondents, this Court is of the considered view that since the dispute, with regard to the title of the land in question, as well as the building therein, involves questions of fact and therefore, the writ petition filed before this Court, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is not maintainable.  However, it is open to the petitioner to establish his rights before the appropriate civil forum and to pursue the remedies available to him thereafter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t5.  The writ petition is disposed of with the above observations.  No costs. Consequently, connected M.P. is also closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>rrg<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1.The Commissioner,<br \/>\n   Tuticorin Municipality,<br \/>\n   Tuticorin 628 001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court M.B.Murugesan vs The Commissioner on 27 April, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATE: 27-04-2009 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN Writ Petition No.992 of 2004 and W.P.M.P.No.1012 of 2004 M.B.Murugesan &#8230; Petitioner Versus 1.The Commissioner, Tuticorin Municipality, Tuticorin-628 001. 2.Ramachandran &#8230; Respondents Prayer: This petition has been filed seeking [&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-99089","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>M.B.Murugesan vs The Commissioner on 27 April, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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