Dismissed
P.Shanmugam v. the District Collector
Madras HCWP(MD)/22325/2019
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
In this writ petition challenging the erection of high tension towers, the Court held that the petitioner's land may be spared but warned that obstruction would require the licensee to obtain District Magistrate permission under Section 16 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. The petition was disposed of on these lines.
What did the court decide?
The writ petition was disposed of without granting the specific relief sought but with a warning regarding Section 16 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885.