requesting for adequate compensation. He then received a letter dated 3.11.1992, intimating that the matter regarding grant of compensation was under active consideration of the State. Petitioner then informed the Government about the death of his mother. He also forwarded an affidavit from his sister that she had released her share in favour of the petitioner. Ultimately, the petitioner received a letter dated 3.6.1993, granting a sum of Rs.72,050/- as compensation in lieu of 50 acres of agriculture land confiscated in the year 1942. A perusal of the letter annexed with the petition as Annexure P-22 would show that sum of Rs.17,300/- is taken as a principal amount for price of 50 acres of land and sum of Rs.54,750/is calculated as interest from 1.4.1942 to 31.5.1993. Thus, Rs.72,050/- is the amount, which is assessed by the Government for being paid to a freedom fighter. What a benevolence, if it may be called so? Obviously, the petitioner was to respond that this compensation was inadequate and requested the Government to reexamine the matter. Indeed the compensation offered was wholly inadequate, unfair and unreasonable. Instead, the petitioner received a draft dated 22.6.1993 amounting to Rs.72,050/-. This is then challenged by the petitioner by filing the present writ petition before this Court, pleading that the action of the respondents is arbitrary, unfair, violative of the rules and instructions and, thus, be quashed. The compensation was accepted under protest.
