Judgment :-

Altamas Kabir, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellant is a Private Limited Company engaged in the business of poultry farming which is confined to the production of eggs. It has constructed three separate sheds on Survey Nos.242/2 and 249/3 in Nanniyur Pudur Village in Karur District in the State of Tamil Nadu for accommodating about 1.25 lakh layer birds. It is the case of the appellant that it had invested a sum of about Rs.6 crores in acquiring the lands, erecting the sheds thereupon and acquiring the birds for the purpose of starting the poultry farm.

3. At this juncture, it may be noted that the lands on which the poultry farm was started by the appellant, had been acquired in two stages. About 11 acres of land were acquired by the appellant-Company on 23rd June, 2004 and about 4 acres were acquired on 19th November, 2004.

5. At about the same time, the 3rd respondent, The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as `the Corporation) took up the work of construction of a 400 KV Perambalur – Pugalur D/C Line as part of the Neyveli Thermal Station Expansion Project for evacuation of electricity generated therein. In the process, transmission towers