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State, TTDC Prefer Appeals Against Single Bench Orders In SRM Hotel Row
The hotel management had filed two petitions before the Single Bench seeking relief.Photo Credit: File photo
The State government and the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) have filed appeals before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court against two orders of a Single Bench that granted relief to SRM Hotel in Tiruchi.
A Division Bench of Justices R. Suresh Kumar and G. Arul Murugan will continue to hear the matter on July 30.
The authorities had attempted to take possession of the hotel on June 14 following the expiry of the hotel's 30-year lease agreement with the TTDC. The hotel management had filed two petitions before the Single Bench seeking relief. One of the petitions sought a direction to restrain the authorities from evicting the hotel management from the premises and the other challenged the order passed by the authorities rejecting their request for renewal of the lease.
The Single Bench had observed that the conduct of the district administration and the police in entering the premises and taking possession in the forenoon of June 14 could only be characterised as height of arbitrariness and illegality. The authorities ought to have followed due process of law, the court had said.
It had further observed that when it came to the conclusion that the authorities had acted illegally, it was its duty to put the clock back and restore the status quo ante.
With regard to the second petition, the Single Bench had observed that the petitioner should have been given an opportunity to demonstrate that they and not the TTDC were better equipped to run the hotel. The petitioner was not invited for a discussion, the court had observed and set aside the order passed by the authorities and remitted the matter to the authorities to grant personal hearing to the petitioner, consider all the contentions and pass a speaking order on merits.
State, TTDC Challenge Orders Granting Relief To SRM Hotel
Madurai: The state govt and the Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) preferred appeals in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court against the single bench orders which had granted relief to SRM Hotel in Trichy.After the authorities tried to take possession of the property on June 14, following the expiry of a 30-year lease agreement with TTDC, SRM Hotels Private Limited moved court seeking a direction to forbear the authorities evicting them from the property in Kottapattu in Trichy district. The single bench observed that the conduct of the district administration as well as jurisdictional police in entering the premises and taking possession in the forenoon of June 14 was the height of arbitrariness and illegality. The single bench restrained the state from evicting the hotel management from the property without following due process of law. The management also filed another plea challenging the state's order rejecting the application to renew the lease for the property.The single bench observed that the petitioner should have been given an opportunity to demonstrate that they and not TTDC are better equipped to run the hotel. Hence, the single bench set aside the order and remitted the matter back to the authorities to pass a speaking order by granting personal hearing to the petitioner. Challenging both the orders, the state and TTDC had preferred the appeals. After an elaborate hearing on Thursday, a division bench of justice R Suresh Kumar and justice G Arul Murugan posted hearing to July 30.We also published the following articles recently
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