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2021 Supreme(Mad) 212

SANJIB BANERJEE, SENTHILKUMAR RAMAMOORTHY
Union of India, Rep. by the Chief Secretary to Government, Government of Pondicherry – Appellant
Versus
Cricket Association of Pondicherry (Reg. No. 178 of 2003), Rep. by its Honorary Secretary V. Chandran – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellants : N. Mala, Govt. Pleader
For the Respondent:Sathish Parasaran, S.C., B. Balavijayan, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

Sanjib Banerjee, J.

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 12.12.2020 made in WMP Nos.23319 and 23321 of 2020 in W.P.No.18763 of 2020.)

1. The appeal is directed against an interim order of December 12, 2020.

2. At first blush, the order impugned appears to be unjustified since it does not disclose any reasons. However, merely because a Court has failed to give reasons in support of an order in favour of a deserving party would not imply that such party cannot be heard to sustain the order on justifiable grounds.

3. The respondent-writ petitioner refers to an executive order passed on November 12, 2020, which is extracted at page 52 of the appeal papers. It appears that the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry required an FIR to be registered for the writ petitioner having allegedly trespassed into government lands and water bodies. Whether or not there may have been sufficient basis for lodging the FIR, it appears that the Lieutenant Governor directed the perceived violator to stop further activities at the premises and in aid of such direction, the electricity connection to a cricket ground was discontinued without so much as a by-

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