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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
MR. JUSTICE SYAM KUMAR V.M., J
T.S.SUBRAMANIAN – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(SYAM KUMAR V.M., J.)
This Writ Petition is filed by the petitioner seeking the following reliefs :
“(i) quash Exts.P6 and P7 orders by the issue of a writ of certiorari or other appropriate writ, order of direction ;
(ii) issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the 1st respondent to hold that the petitioner has cleared all the arrears of rent and to assign the property in question under the Assignment of Land within the Municipal and Corporation Area Rules, 1995 ;
(iii) issue such other writ, order or direction as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.”
2. Land having an extent of 13.5 cents situated within Kollam town had been leased out to the petitioner's predecessors by the erstwhile Travancore- Cochin State in 1949. A petrol pump was being conducted on the said land. The said lease was being renewed and extended from time to time by the Government of Kerala. In the year 1989, when the lease rent was drastically increased by the Government vide Ext.P1 order, the petitioner’s father challenged the same before this Court. This Court vide Ext.P2 judgment dated 19.10.2000 disposed of the
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