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2024:MHC:3555
W.P.No.12980 of 2023
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
Reserved On : 28.03.2024
Pronounced On : 01.08.2024
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE DR. JUSTICE ANITA SUMANTH
WP.No.12980 of 2023
and W.M.P.Nos.12762, 12766 and 33967 of 2023
Working Committee of the Residents’ Assembly of Auroville
Represented by its Member Hemant Lamba
Having office temporarily at Koodam,
No.1 Crown Road
Auroville 605 101
Tamil Nadu ... Petitioner
vs
1.Anuradha Legrand
2.Parthasarathy Krishnan
3.Arun Selvam
4.Srimoyi Rossegger
5.Ingeborg Christine Neuman Zimm (Tine)
6.Jose Eusebio Martinez Burdaspar (Joseba)
7.Selvaraj Damodaran
8.Secretary to the Governing Board,
Auroville Foundation,
Auroville Foundation Bhavan,
Auroville 605 101.
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W.P.No.12980 of 2023
... Respondents
PRAYER: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India
praying to issue a Writ of Quo Warranto removing respondents 1 – 7 from
acting/holding out as members of the Working Committee of the Residents’
Assembly of Auroville under Section 20 of the Auroville Foundation Act, 1988.
For Petitioner : Mr.P.V.Balasubramanian
Senior Counsel
For Mr.Suchindran.B.N.
For Respondents : Mr.Vaibhav Venkatesh (R8)
No appearance (R1 to R7)
ORDER
The petitioner claims to be the Working Committee of the Residents
Assembly of Auroville, (in short ‘Working Committee) and seeks relief of quo
warranto as against R1 to R7 who also project themselves as constituting the
Working Committee. The submissions of Mr.P.V.Balasubramanian, learned
Senior Counsel appearing for Mr.Suchindran, learned counsel on record for the
petitioner and Mr.Vaibhav Venkatesh, learned counsel appearing for R8 have
been heard in detail. None appears for R1 to R7.
2. Before adverting to the submissions advanced on the main prayer, I
deal with the preliminary objection raised by R8 in regard to the maintainability
of the writ petition in WMP No.33967 of 2023 alleging perjury. According to
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