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S.Ponsekar v. the Joint Registrar of

Madras HC14 Oct 2025WP(MD)/2699/2018

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

Writ petition dismissed as infructuous; salt pan lease renewal (171 acres, Survey Nos.317/8B and 317/6A, Palayakayal village, Srivaikundam Taluk, Tuticorin District); Palayakayal Salt Workers Co Op. Production, Sale Society; Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Thoothukudi; Article 226; certiorarified mandamus; order in Na.Ka.7723/2011 Sa.O dated 08.01.2018; no costs; connected W.M.P(MD)Nos.2874 & 2875 of 2018 closed; P.T. Asha J.; no merits adjudicated.

What did the court decide?

The writ petition having become infructuous with nothing surviving to be adjudicated, the Court dismissed the writ petition as infructuous, with no costs, and closed the connected miscellaneous petitions. ¶24

S.Ponsekar Vs the Joint Registrar of — Writ and Judicial Review | Madras HC (2025)

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W.P.(MD) No.2699 of 2018

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BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

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DATED : 14.10.2025

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CORAM:

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THE HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE P.T.ASHA

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W.P.(MD)No.2699 of 2018 and W.M.P(MD)Nos.2874 & 2875 of 2018

S.Ponsekar

.. Petitioner

Vs.

1.The Joint Registrar of Co-Operative Societies, O/o. the Joint Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Thoothukudi.

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2.The Special Officer,

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E 229, Palayakayal Salt Workers Co Op. Production, Sale Society, Thoothukudi. .. Respondents

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Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for issuance of Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records pertaining to the impugned order in Na.Ka.7723/2011 Sa.O dated 08.01.2018 on the file of the Respondent No.1 and quash the same as illegal and consequently for a direction, directing the Respondents to renew the lease of Salt pan situated in Survey Nos.317/8B (25 acres) and 317/6A (146 acres) totally in an extent of 171 Acres in Palayakayal

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https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis

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W.P.(MD) No.2699 of 2018

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village, Srivaikundam Taluk, Tuticorin District in favour of the Petitioner for a further period of 15 years from 14.09.2018 within the time period stipulated by this Court.

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For Petitioner : Mr.M.Mahaboob Fazil

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For Respondents : Mr.A.Kannan Additional Government Pleader

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ORDER

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The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that

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the present writ petition has become infructuous and nothing survives to be adjudicated.

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