Contempt petition filed against the Municipality for not complying with a prior order to inspect properties for tax reassessment. Court accepted the Municipality's plea of backlog and directed compliance within eight weeks.
Direction to respondent Municipality to comply with the prior court order within eight weeks.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 12.07.2019
CORAM :
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE T.S.SIVAGNANAM
Contp.No.953 of 2019 T.Arumugam .. Petitioner Vs. Mr.Lakshmanan, B.E., The Commissioner, Dharapuram Municipality, Dharapuram, Tiruppur District. .. Respondent Prayer : Contempt Petition filed Under Section 11 of Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, to punish the respondent for the non compliance of the order passed in W.P.No.4526 of 2018 dated 09.04.2018. For Petitioner : Mr.K. Sudhakar For Respondent : Mr.P.Srinivas * * *
ORDER
This contempt petition has been filed alleging
willful disobedience of the order passed by this Court in W.P.No. 4526 of 2018 dated 09.04.2018.
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respondent/ Municipality submitted that there are more than 400 cases where reassessments are to be done and therefore requests that reasonable time may be granted to the respondent Municipality.
reassessment proceedings, the petitioner cannot be stated to be aggrieved nor it can be stated to be the case of willful disobedience.
petition is closed.
mp/ska
Dated at Madras this the day of 2019.
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Mv/19/07/2019
To
The Commissioner, Dharapuram Municipality, Dharapuram, Tiruppur District.
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the Municipality's delay in inspecting properties for fresh tax reassessment amounts to willful disobedience warranting contempt punishment.
T.Arumsugam
Mr.Lakshmanan, B.E.
T.S.Sivagnanam
As recorded by the court registry
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