JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the Respondents 1,3 and 5 to pay the compensation of Rs.3,24,54,440/- as per the assessment made by the Department of Horticulture in their letter No.A/846/07 dated 19.05.2007 for Rs.1,01,02,600/-, Department of Forest in Na.Ka.No.48 of 2007 dated 15.06.2007 for Rs.1,24,69,590/-, and Department of Forest in Na.Ka.No.48 of 2007 dated 22.08.2007 for Rs.98,82,250/- respectively with interest to the Petitioner at the earliest.)

1. The subject matter of this writ petition is a compensation claim of Rs.3,24,54,440/- on the basis of assessments made by the Department of Horticulture and the Department of Forests pursuant to a complaint that an atrocity was committed in terms of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act).

2. The Petitioner belongs to the Hindu Paraiya community, which is a Scheduled Caste. He is an agriculturist who claims that he owns about 8.5 acres of land in V