JUDGMENT (CAV)

Rajan Gupta, J. - The present petition has been filed for restraining the respondents from erecting 132KV Transmission Tower on the residential/commercial land of the petitioner as also to direct the respondents not to use the raiyati land of the petitioner for erection of 132 KV Transmission Towers.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is the raiyat of the land bearing Plot No. 903, Khata No. 09, Thana No. 43, Mauza-Punadih, Circle-Patna Sadar, CD Block-Patna Rural, District-Patna. It is the further submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner that though adjacent/vacant lands are available but the respondent-Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, with oblique motives, has changed the original alignment of the proposed transmission line for the purposes of erection of 132 KV Transmission Towers/electricity high tension wires and now the respondents are seeking to erect the towers as also the high tension wires over the plot/land of the petitioner. Lastly, it is submitted that no notice was ever given to the petitioner about the proposed erection of 132 KV Tower as also laying of high tension electricity lines/wires. Th