1. All these Civil Revision Petitions are arising out of a common order dated 27.02.2004 passed in Original Petition No.106 to 111 of 1990. The above said order is challenged by the petitioners.

2. The short facts necessary for the disposal of all these Civil Revision Petitions is as follows that the respondents herein in the respective C.R.P. own some stretch of agriculture lands in various survey numbers in Ammapalayam Revenue Village of Salem Taluk. In the said circumstance the revision petitioner Power Grid Corporation in the year 1990 while installing a 40 KV electric transmission power line from Neyveli-Salem Circuit, cut down the trees standing in the lands of the respondents as the above transmission line passed through their fields.

3. According to the respondents there were varieties of Fruit yielding trees standing in their fields and the revision petitioners while effectuating the above transmission line had caused serious damages to them by cutting fruit bearing trees and non-fruit bearing trees namely Coconut trees, Elandhai trees, Unjai trees, Neem tree