JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of certiorari calling for the records relating to the impugned G.O [D] No.28, Highways and Minor Ports [HN2], dated 25.02.2019 issued by the 1st respondent, which is published in Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, Part II-Section 2 dated 13.03.2019, insofar as Sl.No.33, which is relating to the petitioners’ lands in SF.No.557 [eastern part], Odathurai Village, Bhavani Taluk, Erode District and quash the same.)

1. The present writ petition has been filed challenging the Government Order issued by the first respondent under Section 15(1) of the Tamil Nadu Highways Act, 2001 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and the Notification published in the Government Gazette on 13.03.2019, insofar as the lands belonging to the petitioners are concerned.

2. The case of the petitioners is that they are the owners of the subject property and that they have been cultivating the said lands. The second respondent issued a Notification dt. 27.11.2014 under section 15(2) of the Act to acquire large extents of land for the purpose of widening the existing Erode-Ooty State Highways. Pursuant