IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.BHAVADASAN TUESDAY, THE 16TH NOVEMBER 2010 / 25TH KARTHIKA 1932 DBAR.No. 1 of 1998() ----------------------------- ( COCHIN DEVASWOM BOARD - AUDIT REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1996-97.) ------------------------------------ PETITIIONER: -------------------- THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, LOCAL FUND AUDIT, COCHIN DEVASWOM BOARD AUDIT, THRISSUR. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------- THE SECRETARY, COCHIN DEVASWOM BOARD, THRISSUR. ADVS. SRI.C.E.UNNIKRISHNAN,SC,COCHIN DEV.BOAR SRI.NAGARAJ NARAYANAN SRI. KRISHNA KUMAR MANGOT-AMICUS CURIAE FOR OMBUDSMAN THIS DEVASWOM BOARD AUDIT REPORT HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 16/11/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING: sts THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN & P. BHAVADASAN, JJ. ------------------------------------------- D.B.A.R.No.1 OF 1998 ------------------------------------------- Dated this the 16th day of November, 2010 O R D E R Thottathil B.Radhakrishnan, J. Read paragraph 3 of the order dated 26.3.2009. Following that, learned counsel for the Cochin Devaswom Board says that a claim petition has been filed before the Forest Tribunal as O.A.No.8/10 in terms of the provisions of the Kerala Forest (Vesting and Management of Ecologically Fragile Lands) Act, 2003. We record the submission and accordingly close this matter, leaving the parties to be governed by the decision that the Forest Tribunal may issue on the aforesaid O.A. and any further decision that the superior courts may take in that regard. Sd/- THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, Judge. Sd/- P.BHAVADASAN, Judge. kkb.16/11.