Village Panchayat Calangute vs Additional Director Of Panchayat Ii& ... on 2 July, 2012
9. Shri Shyam Divan, learned senior counsel relied upon the judgment of
the learned Single Judge in Village Panchayat of Calangute v. The Deputy
Director of Panchayats 2004(2) Goa LR 497 and of the Division Bench of the
Kerala High Court in Karunagappally Grama Panchayat v. State of Kerala 1996
(1) KLT 419 and argued that summary dismissal of the writ petitions was not
at all warranted because the issues raised by the appellant were of
considerable public importance. Shri Divan submitted that the illegal
construction raised by the company has the effect of preventing the public
from having access to the water well in Survey No. 362/10 and the chapel
situated beyond Survey No.362/12 and argued that the appellant being a
representative body of the people of the village has the right to question
the orders passed by respondent No.1 and the Block Development Officer and
the High Court could not have non-suited it by accepting the narrow
interpretation of the term ‘person aggrieved’.