IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.GIRI TUESDAY, THE 25TH NOVEMBER 2008 / 4TH AGRAHAYANA 1930 WP(C).No. 34693 of 2008(E) -------------------------- AA.87/2000 of APPELLATE AUTHORITY (LR), ALAPPUZHA .................... PETITIONER(S): --------------- FR.P.C.CHERIAN PARAMKULANGARA, KEEZHAMPARA, KONDOOR. BY ADV. SRI.VIJU ABRAHAM SRI.JOY C. PAUL SRI.DOMINIC JOHNSON RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. CHACKO DEVASSIA THEKKANOLIPKACKAL, AMPARANIRAPPEL BHARANANGANAM, KOTTAYAM DIST. 2. LAND REFORMS APPELLATE AUTHORITY ALAPPUZHA. BY GP SRI.SANTHOSH KUMAR THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 25/11/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: V.GIRI, J ------------------- W.P.(C).34693/2008 -------------------- Dated this the 25th day of November, 2008 JUDGMENT Aggrieved by Ext.P1 order passed by the Land Tribunal, Pala, holding the first respondent as a cultivating tenant of the property belonging to the petitioner, petitioner has preferred A.A.No.80/1995 before the Land Reforms Appellate Authority, Thrissur. The writ petition is filed aggrieved by the delay in the disposal of the said appeal. Learned counsel for the petitioner points out that the appeal has now been transferred to the Land Reforms Appellate Authority, Alappuzha, and re-numbered as A.A.87/00. He further points that that appeal was already heard in the year 2004. 2. There is no justification in the continued delay in the disposal of appeal. In the result, writ petition is disposed of directing the second respondent to pass final orders on A.A.87/00, if necessary after hearing the parties once again, without further delay, at any W.P.(C).34693/2008 2 rate, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, along with the copy of the writ petition. V.GIRI, Judge mrcs