ORDER: The petitioner is the present trustee of Begavanthaswamy Mutt, Pudupalayam, Cuddalore (hereinafter referred to as the trust), having been appointed to that office in the year 1971. Properties belonging to the trust were acquired by the State of Tamil Nadu under the Land Acquisition Act (hereinafter called the Act) and an award determining compensation payable therefor was made by the Special Tahsildar for Land Acquisition (Harijan Welfare), Chidambaram, South Arcot District (hereinafter referred to as the Tahsildar on the 27th of July, 1967. No application for a reference of the question of compensation to the competent Court was made on behalf of the trust till the 19th of October, 1967, when such an application was filed by Bhoganathan Pillai, the then trustee of the trust. However, the Tahsildar refused to make a reference of the question of the quantum of compensation under sub-section (2) of section 18 of the Act, on the ground that the application made by (the then trustee in that behalf was time-barred, although a reference was made by him’ to the District Court under sub-section (2) of section 31 of the Act. The present trustee of the trust is aggrieved by the failur

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