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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
R. Subramanian, C. Kumarappan, JJ
V. Pandurangan – Appellant
Versus
The District Collector, Tiruvallur District – Respondent
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| 1. community certificate cancellation challenged. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. collector's procedural lapse observed. (Para 3) |
| 3. writ petition allowed; order quashed. (Para 4) |
(Order of the Court was delivered by R.SUBRAMANIAN, J.)
Challenge in the Writ Petition is to the order of the District Collector, Tiruvallur dated 10.10.2024, cancelling the community certificate issued to the petitioner.
2. The issue relating to cancellation of community certificates by the Collector has been gone into by us in W.P.No.34795 of 2024 etc., batch and we had concluded that the District Collector has no power to cancel the certificates issued, in view of the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Kumari Madhuri Patil Vs. Additional Commissioner reported in 1994 (6)
SCC 241.
3. We had also pointed out that the State has issued an elaborate manual for dealing with the issues relating to cancellation of community certificates. Evidently, the procedure prescribed in the manual has not been followed.
4. In view of the same, the Writ Petition will stand allowed, the order of the District Collector impugned in the Writ Petition will stand quashed. Liberty is reserved to the Government to take appropri
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