IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN WEDNESDAY, THE 22ND SEPTEMBER 2010 / 31ST BHADRA 1932 WP(C).No. 32612 of 2009(V) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- C.R.UNNI,CHANIYAMURI HOUSE, KUNJUNNI LANE,THEVARA, COCHIN. BY ADV. SRI.SANU.S.PANICKER RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. THE SECRETARY, CORPORATION OF COCHIN, CORPORATION OFFICE, COCHIN-682011. 2. A.J.FRANCIS,STALL NO. I A,THEVARA MARKET BUILDING,THEVARA.PO,COCHIN-13. 3. P.D.JOSE,STALL NO. 18,THEVARA MARKETING BUILDING THEVARA.PO,COCHIN-13. BY ADV. SRI.PRAVEEN K.JOY,SC,COCHIN CORPORATION BY ADV. SRI..K.S.BABU FOR R3 BY ADV. SMT.N.SUDHA FOR R3 THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/09/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ------------------------------- W.P.(C) No. 32612 of 2009 ------------------------------- Dated this the 22nd day of September, 2010 J U D G M E N T The petitioner has filed this writ petition challenging the allotment of shop rooms in Thevara Market to various persons which was made in the year 1972. In Ext.P4 representation submitted by the petitioner it is alleged that the shop rooms were let out without inviting tenders or by public auction and that the Corporation has thereby been put to considerable loss. In Ext.P4, the petitioner has requested the Secretary of Cochin Corporation to allot one shop in Thevara Market to him. Ext.P4 itself discloses that the allotment in question was made in the year 1972, long before the Kerala Municipality Act was enacted and brought into force. The main contention raised by the petitioner is that allotment was not in tune within Section 215(2) of the Kerala Municipality Act. The allotment having been made in the year 1972, the petitioner cannot rely on a later law to contend that the allotment is illegal. In such circumstances, I find no grounds to proceed further with this writ petition. The writ petition fails and is accordingly dismissed. P.N.RAVINDRAN, Judge. nj.