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2025 DAILYLAW 84569 (MAD)

S.PATHAMANATHAN v. THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

WP/29827/2025 · 2025-08-08

N Anand Venkatesh

Transfer Petitionbody2025

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2025:MHC:2072 WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 08-08-2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE N. ANAND VENKATESH WP Nos. 29827, 29849, 29853, 29855, 29877, 29885 & 29909 of 2025 and WMP Nos. 33453, 33475, 33482, 33489, 33532, 33538 & 33558of 2025 WP No.29827 of 2025: S.Pathmanathan Petitioner(s) Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer Page No.1 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) WP No.29849 of 2025: D.Vairavanathan Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Page No.2 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch Respondent(s) WP No.29853 of 2025: K.Chandra Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) WP No.29855 of 2025: V.Sivanantham Vs Page No.3 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) WP No.29877 of 2025: S.Veeraiyan Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director Page No.4 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) WP No.29885 of 2025: V.Kamatchi Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. Page No.5 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) WP No.29909 of 2025: P.Veeramani Vs 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Page No.6 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch Mannargudi, Tiruvarur District. Respondent(s) Prayer in WP No.29827/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 263/1F, 264/5, 34/2A/2B/4A/4B Perumazhai Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Prayer in WP No.29849/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 402/1/2/3/4/5/6/11/12/12/14, 104/2/4 & 400/3 Uthayamarthandapuram Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Prayer in WP No.29853/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 405/2/3/4/5/6 Uthayamarthandapuram Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Prayer in WP No.29855/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 22.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 25/12A/14/5A/10/13A/15/16A/9/26 & 31 Perumazhai Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Prayer in WP No.29877/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 398/2A/3/4A/2B, 398/5/6/7 Uthayamarthandapuram Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Page No.7 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch Prayer in WP No.29885/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 381/2/3, 382/2/3/4/5 Uthayamarthandapuram Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. Prayer in WP No.29909/2025: Directing the 1st respondent herein to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 23.07.2025 and to issue license to run vannamei farm at S.Nos. 578/2G/2F, 580/1A, 578/2H, 582/1B/2A, 578/2E Uthayamarthandapuram Village, Muthupettai Taluk, Tiruvarur District. For Petitioner(s): Mr.S.Alagiri (In All WPs) For Respondent(s): Mr.E.Vijay Anand, AGP (In All WPs) COMMON ORDER These writ petitions have been filed for the direction to the 1 st respondent / Assistant Director, Department of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District to deal with the representations given by the petitioners, wherein the petitioners have sought for the issuance of license to run the Shrimp Farm in the subject properties. Page No.8 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch 2. When the matter was taken up for hearing today, the learned Additional Government Pleader appearing on behalf of the respondent 1 to 4 produced the written instructions received from the Assistant Director, Department of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. The relevant portions are extracted hereunder: “Based on the Court direction the SDLC committee has inspected the following 7 shrimp farms which is illegally operated without valid registration from the concern Authority, Department. In continuation with this the notice has been served on 17.07.2025 (in person) to farm owners to close the culture activities within 7 days. Based on the notice the farm owners has submitted extension letter for allowing the culture till harvest and simultaneously submitted G.O.No.5, AHDF&FW (FS-4) Department Dated 29.01.2024 Form- A application of Registration of P.Vannamei farm on 23.07.2025 to the Assistant Director of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Office, Thiruvarur. New farms undertaking Shrimp Culture: Page No.9 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch Sl.No Unregistered Farm Owner Name Phone No. Pond No. Areas (Ha) TFA WSA 1 Padmanaban S/o Sundaram 9942738892 3 2.9 2 2 Vairavanathan S/o Durairaj 8098380014 5 4 3 3 Veeramani S/o Palanikunchu 9585167288 4 1.5 1.3 4 Chandra W/o Kamaraj 9965850452 4 2 1 5 Veeraiyan S/o Shivaperumal 9986547821 6 3 1.5 6 Shivanantham S/o Vishwanathan 9865497247 4 1.5 1 7 Kamachi S/o Veeramani 9842298970 4 2 1.5 The Assistant Director of Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Thiruvarur communicated through letter to submit additional particulars to the above 7 Farmers in such as, 1.Demand Draft of processing fee 2.Layout plan of aqua farm 3.Soil test Report 4.Details declaration form for non use of banned Antibiotics 5. Details for indicating the farm has effluent Treatment system (ETS). Once the farmers will submit the additional particulars Page No.10 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch which are mentioned above, the committee will inspect the farms and will do further process for registration of shrimp a farm which compiles guidelines of Government order.” 3. It is clear from the above that the request made by the petitioners is already under consideration and the petitioners are required to furnish the additional particulars as sought for by the 1 st respondent and once the same is received, the application will be processed and license will be granted on compliance of the guidelines given under the Government order in G.O.Ms.No.5, Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare (FS-4) Department dated 29.01.2024. 4. In view of the above, the 1 st respondent is directed to complete this process within a period four (4) weeks from the date of receipt of all the additional particulars that has been sought for from the petitioners. Page No.11 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch 5. In result, all these Writ Petitions are disposed of with the above directions. No costs. Consequently, the connected Miscellaneous Petitions are closed. 08-08-2025 Index:Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order Internet:Yes Neutral Citation:Yes/No Jeni To 1.The Assistant Director O/o.The Assistant Director, Department Of Fisheries And Fishermen Welfare, Tiruvarur District. 2.The Joint Director O/o.The Joint Director, Department Of Fisheries And Fishermen Welfare, Zone, Nagapattinam District. 3.The District Collector O/o.The District Collector, Tiruvarur Page No.12 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch District. 4.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Officer, Tiruppur District. 5.The District Revenue Officer O/o. The District Revenue Officer, Mannargudi Tiruvarur District. Page No.13 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch N.ANAND VENKATESH J. Jeni WP Nos. 29827 of 2025, etc., & Batch 08-08-2025 Page No.14 of 14 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis