blocked by placing barricades across the road covering the same with some bushes. The police, even on the premise of controlling the public, who may approach the beach, to have a holy dip during this Karthika masam season, cannot block the public road preventing access to the private property i.e. the resort being run by the petitioner after obtaining valid permission from the Tourism Department to run the same. This may lead to loss of business and it may also cause monetary loss to the petitioner if free access to approach the resort is blocked, in the guise of preventing heavy flow of public to the sea to have a holy dip. As can be seen from the said photograph, there is also a way on the other side of the divider on the road and the police can manage the people who visits the beach for holy dip, by controlling them to have access to the beach from the said road. Therefore, there is no valid reason to block the public road for days together causing obstruction to the petitioner and also his customers and other public to have access to the resort and to visit the said resort. Therefore, the explanation offered on behalf of the respondents that they have laid the barricades on the public road only for the purpose of preventing heavy inflow of public during Karthika masam season to the beach is not convincing and it cannot be countenanced. It appears to be only a ruse for illegal blockage of the road leading to the resort. As already noticed supra, they cannot block the public roads preventing access to the private property of the citizens of the country, causing loss to their business on the pretext of controlling the public who may visit the beach for a holy dip.
