H ST JOHN DOSSA Vs. NAGAR MAHAPALIKA ALLAHABAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAVI S. Dhavan and V. P. Goel, JJ. This writ petition is of the year 1980. It has remained pending at the High Court for seventeen years. In between what has hap pened is that both petitioner and counsel for the petitioner have died. On the death of the petitioner, an application was moved to substitute the name of the petitioner with one Munir Khan son of Late Magan Khan resident of 10/10 Kanpur Road, Allahabad. The substitution was permitted on 19-2-1997. The petitioner so substituted is repre sented by counsel, one Mr. U. S. Misra, Ad vocate, but Counsel for the petitioner has sent an illness slip. As this is a matter pend ing for seventeen years, it cannot be ad journed. In the circumstances, upon perus ing the record, the Court is rendering its opinion.

(2.) THE writ which the petitioner seeks cannot be granted.

(3.) THUS with this declaration the peti tion is consigned to the record, but formally as dismissed.