P.R.Sampath Kumar v. the District Collector
Case brief
What is this about?
Interlocutory impleadment order, Madras High Court, 10.07.2025. W.M.P. No.19414 of 2024 in W.P.No.21118 of 2023 sought impleadment of the Director, Town and Country Planning (DTCP, CMDA Office Complex, Koyambedu, Chennai 600 107) as R5. Additional Government Pleader T.K. Saravanan accepted notice for all five respondents and raised no objection. Division Bench of M. Sundar J. (author) and Hemant Chandangoudar J. allowed the WMP as innocuous and directed the Registry to amend the case file. Relevant searches: writ miscellaneous petition; impleadment/addition of respondent in writ petitions; Director Town and Country Planning; DTCP/CMDA; Additional Government Pleader notice; Madras High Court interlocutory order. Contains no statutory references, no precedent citations, no quantum, and lays down no ratio decidenti beyond the procedural grant of impleadment.
What did the court decide?
Impleadment of 'The Director, Town and Country Planning, DTCP, CMDA Office Complex, E & C, Market Road, Srinivasa Nagar, Virugambakkam, Koyambedu, Chennai 600 107' as R5 in W.P.No.21118 of 2023, granted as prayed for; Registry to carry out necessary consequential amendment in the case file.