JUDGMENT :

RAVINDRA V. GHUGE, J.

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith and heard finally by the consent of the parties.

2. The petitioner, a 73 years old senior citizen, has put forth prayer Clause ‘A’ as under:

“For a writ of mandamus Order or direction in nature of mandamus directing respondent No. 2 for issuance of Project Affected Person Certificate in favour of Aishwarya Chandrashekhar Nafade.”

3. The father of the petitioner, Eknath (since deceased) was the owner of land situated in Gut No. 26/4 of the village Nimbhora (Bk.), Tq. Bhusawal, Dist. Jalgaon. Out of such land, an area admeasuring 3 Acres 8 Gunthas was acquired for the construction of the thermal power station by Award dated 28.05.1962. Besides this portion of the land, a parcel of land admeasuring 10R was acquired out of land situated in Gut No. 22/1-B+2+3 in the same village, in 1975 for erecting a thermal power station.

4. By this petition, the petitioner has represented before us that as his daughter-in-law Smt. Aishwarya has not been granted a Project Affected Person (hereinafter referred to as ‘PAP’) Certificate, that we should exercise our extraordinary jurisdiction invoking the Writ of Mandamus and issue a dire