JUDGMENT :

VIKRAM NATH, J.

1. One Environmental Engineer, another a Social Welfare Activist, another a Public Spirited Citizen and one Social Worker, all four have joined together to file the above Public Interest Litigation for protection of poor, downtrodden and Scheduled Tribes being illegally evicted from their agricultural lands and residence in District Narmada. Petitioner Nos.1, 3 and 4 are residents of Ahmedabad city and petitioner No.2 is a resident of Chandni Chowk, Rajpipla, District Narmada. All four are residents of urban areas, however, claiming themselves to be related to non-governmental organization working on socio-environmental issues, upliftment of residents of rural areas and forest areas, have joined together to file the present Public Interest Litigation raising a cause for the residents of village Kevadia, Vaghadiya, Navagam, Limbdi, Kothi and Gora. According to the petitioners, Adivasi villagers of the above six villages are being illegally and forcibly evicted from their agricultural lands and residence.

2. The reliefs claimed by means of the present petition are reproduced below :

“(A) Your Lordship be pleased to issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropri