stage, notice has been issued under Section 7 of the Tamil Nadu Land Encroachment Act by the Tahsildar asking them to give their explanation as to why they should not be evicted from the place-in-question followed by a notice under Section 6 of the Act, therefore, the same are liable to be quashed. In support of his contention, the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners requested this Court to consider a decision of a Full Bench of this Court in T.K.Shanmugam, Secretary, C.P.I. (M) North Chennai District Committee, 52 Cooks Road, Perambur, Chennai-600 011 vs. The State of Tamil Nadu rep. by its Secretary to Government, Department of Revenue, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009 and others reported in 2015-5-L.W.397 in which in paragraph 39, it has been held that it should not be misunderstood for a moment that all encroachments should be regularized or encroached, but if the State Government has taken a conscious decision to regularize certain encroachments which have continued for a pretty long time after the appropriate authority comes to a conclusion that such land is not required for any public purpose or for the State, the same would be within the jurisdiction of the Government to take a policy decision in the matter.
