Public authorities, statutory authorities, administrative authorities in this country think they are law unto to themselves; they come before court in answer to the notices issued in the writ petitions wherein the aggrieved persons/citizens of the country file petitions seeking for judicial review of administrative action only to claim to be immune from scrutiny and examination, on the bogey of some action having been taken based on some expert advice or on some technical advice.

2. The present writ petition is one such case, where the writ petitioner, owner of a land and building located in the vicinity of national highway No 48 at Madigundanahalli, Kudur hobli, Magadi taluk, Ramanagaram district, is complaining that considerable extent of his land and building, in all measuring about 1416 sq.mtrs spread over two survey numbers viz., Sy No 37/2D and 37/2E, have been notified for acquisition by the central government for the benefit of national highways authorities under the provisions of National Highways Act, 1956 (for short, the Act), but the proceedings have taken place in a haphazard, arbitrary, whimsical and even prejudicial manner to the petitioner, to the detrim