The second respondent issued Form-I, notice dated 29.09.2012 in Roc.No.344/2012 (A), that the land specified in the schedule below and situated at Munjanur Village in Tiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal District, are necessarily to be acquired for the purpose of providing pathway to burial ground sites to the Arunthathiars of Munjanur Village, Tiruchengode Taluk. All persons interested in the land were accordingly directed to lodge their objections before the Land Acquisition Officer and Special Tahsildar (ADW), Namakkal under Sub Section (2) of Section 4 of the (Tamil Nadu Act 33 of 1978) within fifteen days service of the notice. Pursuant to the same, the petitioner made an objection and the second respondent passed the impugned order. Though there is a regular pathway from S.No.189 of the Arunthathiyar colony to S.Nos.184 and 194 of their burial grounds, and in fact, the pathways were converted into Pucca roads about 30 years ago. They demanded a pathway on the Northern side of S.No.190 connecting their colony in S.No.189 to one of their burial grounds in S.No.194. The petitioner has produced the remarks of the then District Collector passed in his ROC.No.8016/99 D2, dated 17.11.1999. In his remarks, the District Collector has noted that a Pucca Panchayat Road is in existence from their colony to the burial ground. The then District Collector has said that the distance is about only 1 km. The Government of Tamil Nadu rejected the
