IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PIUS C.KURIAKOSE & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.S.GOPINATHAN THURSDAY, THE 23RD SEPTEMBER 2010 / 1ST ASWINA 1932 WP(C).No. 28598 of 2010(Y) -------------------------- RCA.22/2009 of DISTRICT COURT, MANJERI .................... PETITIONER(S): --------------- MOHAMMED RAFI, S/O. MOIDEENKUTTY HAJI, METHUVIL NALAKATH HOUSE, P.O.THIRURANGADI, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.K.RAMACHANDRAN SRI.S.SREEDEV RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. VALAPPIL ANWAR, S/O. BEERAN, M.N.COMPLEX, CHEMMAD P.O., TIRURANGADI, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, PIN-676 306. 2. KAVODAN KUNHAMMED, S/O. BEERAN, -DO- -DO- 3. PADINJAREPEDIKAYIL HAMSA, -DO- -DO- 4. P.V.NARAYANAN NAIR, MAYA EXHIBITION, RESIDING AT OLAKKARA AMSOM DESOM, P.O.TIRURANGADI, MALAPPURAM DISTRICT, PIN-676 306. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 23/09/2010, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: PIUS C.KURIAKOSE & P.S.GOPINATHAN, JJ. ------------------------ W.P.(C).No. 28598 OF 2010 ------------------------ Dated this the 23rd day of September, 2010 JUDGMENT Pius C.Kuriakose, J. We have gone through the detailed report sent to this Court by the learned Appellate Authority. It is reported that in RCA No.22/2009, service of notice to the respondents is not completed and that in other RCAs, it will be possible to dispose them of within a period of four months. 2. Sri.K.Ramachandran, learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the respondents in RCA No.22/2009 were appearing before the Rent Control Court through Advocate and he will be filing an application for directing service of notice to those respondents through Advocates in the Rent Control Court and also for substituting service. According to him, the issue involved in these appeals is very narrow and elaborate arguments may not be necessary for disposing of these RCAs. The learned WPC.No.28598/2010 2 counsel also submitted that the RCP is of the year 2001 and hence there is justification for giving top priority to these RCAs. 3. We do not propose to examine the merit of the above submissions in detail. The issue involved is narrow and even though there are not many RCAs pertaining to the Rent Control Petition of the year 2001 and there will be justification for giving priority to these RCAs, we dispose of this writ petition issuing the following directions; i).If application for service of notice to the respondents in RCA No.22/2009 is filed by the writ petitioner within seven days from today for service of notice through the respondents' advocate in the Rent Control Court and by other modes of substituted service, the learned Appellate Authority will pass orders on the same at the earliest and thereby ensure that service of notice in RCA NO.22/2009 is also completed. ii). Once it is seen that service of notice in all the RCAs are completed, the learned Appellate Authority will consider the request of the writ petitioner for giving utmost priority to the disposal of the RCAs and ensure that the RCAs are disposed of early and at any rate, it will be ensured that all the RCAs are WPC.No.28598/2010 3 disposed of within two months of service of notice in RCA No. 22/2009 being completed. PIUS C.KURIAKOSE,JUDGE P.S.GOPINATHAN, JUDGE dpk