IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.GIRI WEDNESDAY, THE 16TH JANUARY 2008 / 26TH POUSHA 1929 WP(C).No. 208 of 2008(Y) ------------------------------------ PETITIONER: ------------------- PAREED.A.K., VILLAGE OFFICER (UNDER SUSPENSION), VADAKKUMKARA VILLAGE, RESIDING AT ALANGATTU HOUSE, MALA P.O., THRISSUR DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN (SR.) SRI.S.SUJIN RESPONDENTS: ------------------------- 1. TAHSILDAR, MUKUNDAPURAM. 2. DISTRICT COLLECTOR, THRISSUR. 3. COMMISSIONER OF LAND REVENUE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 4. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVT., SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. BEJOY CHANDRAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 16/01/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: Kss V.GIRI, J ------------------- W.P.(C).208/2008 -------------------- Dated this the 16th day of January, 2008 JUDGMENT The challenge in this writ petition is against Exts.P7 and P9 orders. Petitioner was placed under suspension by Ext.P7 and by Ext.P9, District Collector decided to continue the suspension, rejecting the application for revocation. Subsequently, petitioner has preferred an appeal, Ext.P10, before the Commissioner of Land Revenue. Detailed contentions have been taken up therein. Apparently, according to the petitioner, the decision to provisionally accept the basic tax in relation to the land regarding which there is a dispute on title, was done in the course of discharge of duties by the petitioner as Village Officer. It is the further contention of the petitioner that he had already written to the Tahasildar seeking clarification as to course of action to be adopted and it is because of delay in receiving instructions from W.P.(C).208/2008 2 the Tahasildar that he had accepted the basic tax, on a provisional basis. In my view, Commissioner of Land Revenue is to bestow serious consideration on the grounds raised by the petitioner in Ext.P10. In the result, after hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, writ petition is disposed of directing the third respondent to take a decision on Ext.P10 treating the same as petitioner's request for revocation for suspension, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate within six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, after hearing the petitioner. V.GIRI, Judge mrcs