by such an expression indicting the date from which it has to be computed, the principles stated in the above three decisions will squarely apply and the period will expire upon the day in the succeeding month corresponding to the date upon which the period starts. Evidently, in Surabhi's cas e (supra), this Court considered an identical situation like one herein, wherein under the Land Acquisition Act, viz. Section 28A(1), the application had to be made within “three months from the date of award of the court”. Therefore, the calendar month has to be reckoned from the date of the award. The Apex Court in Bibi Salma Khatoon's case (supra), also has considered a similar issue. Therefore, the said dictum alone will apply to the facts of this case. The decision of this Court in Radhakrishnan's case (2008 (2) KLT 385), was one considering a case where the wording of Section 33(1) of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, 1969 was not the like one in Section 35(k) of the Panchayat Raj Act. Therefore, it is in that context this Court said that when 'month' followed by the words, “consecutively six months” has to be reckoned based on British calendar, till the end of the six months period.
