Supreme Court of India

Mahantappa v. State of Karnataka

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Bench K. Venkataswami and M. Jagannadha Rao JJ.
Decided 1 December 1998

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the amended Rule 8(8)(a) which came into force on 19.12.1996 applied to the appeal which came to be disposed of on 1.4.1997.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T M. Jagannadha Rao, J. Leave granted. The appellant’s writ petition No. 1046 of 1997 was dismissed by a learned Single Judge of the Madras High Court by Judgment dated 20.10.1997 and further appeal filed by the appellant before the Division Bench in Writ Appeal No. 1686 of 1998 was also dismissed. Aggrieved by the said Judgments this appeal has been preferred. The following are the relevant facts. The District Collector, Tuticorin (First respondent) published a notification in the District Gazetta in January 1995 calling for tender applications for grant of lease of sand…

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