JUDGMENT :

NIKHIL S. KARIEL, J.

1. Heard learned Advocate Mr. Jaimin Gandhi for the petitioners, learned AGP Mr. Ishan Joshi for the respondent No. 1-State and learned Advocate Mr. S.P. Hasurkar for the respondent No. 2.

2. Rule returnable forthwith. Learned AGP Mr. Joshi and learned Advocate Mr. Hasurkar waive service of Rule for the respective respondents.

3. With consent of the parties the present petition is taken up for final hearing.

4. The petitioners before this Court are owners and occupiers of lands situated in village Simej and village Roopgadh, Taluka Dholka, District Ahmedabad. The respondent No. 2 is a company engaged in construction and erection of 765 K.V. Lakadia-Vadodara transmission line having total length of 350 kms. starting from Lakadia (Bhuj) to Waghodia (Vadodara).

4.1 The petitioners have alleged that the transmission line being laid by the respondent No. 2 is not properly aligned inasmuch as the alignment is not in a straight line as required in laying down of such line and whereas such alignment has been proposed to favour certain industrialists and other persons as referred to in the petition on account of which the petitioners are gravely prejudiced. Essenti