Disposed

P.Mookkaiya v. The District Collector

Madras HC10 Jun 2024WP(MD)/11929/2024

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What is this about?

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court disposed of a writ petition by directing the jurisdictional authority to conduct a survey, serve notices to interested parties, allow objections, and complete the exercise within six weeks, maintaining that survey cannot result in dispossession without a civil court decree.

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Directed the jurisdictional authority to conduct a survey, serve notices, consider objections, and complete the exercise within six weeks, securing police protection if needed and ensuring survey does

P.Mookkaiya Vs The District Collector — Land Acquisition | Madras HC (2024)

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W.P(MD)No.11929 of 2024

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BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

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DATED : 10.06.2024

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CORAM

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THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE G.R.SWAMINATHAN

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P.Mookkaiya ... Petitioner

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Vs.

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1.The District Collector, Office of the District Collectorate, Sivagangai, Sivagangai District.

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2.The Tahsildar,

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O/o.Singampunari Taluk, Singampurani, Sivagangai District.

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3.The Head Surveyor, Singampunari Taluk, Singampunari, Sivagangai District.

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4.K.Durai Ambalam ... Respondents

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Prayer : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying this Court to issue a Writ of Mandamus, to direct the respondents herein to conduct survey and fix boundaries of the petitioner's property in Survey Nos.163/10, 163/13, 163/6, 163/7, 163/8 and 163/9 situated at K.Ammapatty, Valasupatty Village, Singampunari Taluk, Sivagangai District by considering petitioner's application dated 18.04.2024 within a time prescribed by this Court.

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For Petitioner : Mr.S.Kanagarajan For Respondent : Mr.K.Balasubramani Special Government Pleader for R1 to R3

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ORDER

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The petitioner has applied to the jurisdictional authority for conducting survey of the petition mentioned lands and for demarcation of the boundaries. Since the authority had not acted upon the petitioner's request, this writ petition came to be filed.

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2.This writ petition is disposed of at the admission stage itself. It is open to any aggrieved party to move this Court either by way of review or recall of this order, if there is any suppression of material facts by the petitioner.

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3.The Writ Petition is disposed of with the following directions:-

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(I) The petitioner is directed to submit his / her application in

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on-line mode. The survey authority will scrutinize if the application submitted by the petitioner is in order.

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(II) The petitioner will have to enclose all the relevant documents such as patta. The applicant must have individual patta in

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his / her name. If he / she is having joint patta, co-pattadars must

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give their consent for conducting survey.

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(III) The survey authority will issue notice to the writ petitioner as well as the adjacent land owners and also to the interested persons, if any.

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(IV) Enquiry shall be held. During enquiry, objections raised by the adjacent land owners / interested persons shall be considered.

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(V) If according to the jurisdictional authority, the objections are without any basis, the same shall be overruled and the objectors shall be informed accordingly. But the survey will be conducted only

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after a period of six weeks so that the objector can move the concerned Court for injunction. If before the proposed date of survey, the objector is unable to obtain any injunction order, the survey can very well go on.

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(VI) It is open to the parties to serve memo of instructions to the surveyor at the time of conducting survey. The same will be borne in mind. While it cannot be binding on the surveyor, the same will be taken note of.

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(VII) If the jurisdictional authority finds objections to be having substance, then, he shall call upon the applicant to move the jurisdictional civil Court for agitating his rights.

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(VIII) If required, the survey authority is empowered to seek

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aid of the jurisdictional police and the jurisdictional police are mandated to grant police protection.

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(IX) It is made clear that at the end of the survey exercise,

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survey stones alone can be installed. The exercise of survey and demarcation undertaken pursuant to the direction of this Court can never result in dispossession of any party. If the petitioner wants to put up fencing and if there is any objection from any private party, fencing can be put up only after the petitioner obtains decree from the jurisdictional Civil Court.

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(X) The survey authority will conclude the entire exercise one way or the other within a period of six weeks after service of notice on the interested persons.

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(XI) A copy of the survey report along with sketch will be served on the parties. No costs.

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1.The District Collector, Office of the District Collectorate, Sivagangai, Sivagangai District.

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2.The Tahsildar, O/o.Singampunari Taluk, Singampurani, Sivagangai District.

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3.The Head Surveyor, Singampunari Taluk, Singampunari, Sivagangai District.

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G.R.SWAMINATHAN, J.

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