JUDGMENT :

Sanjib Banerjee, J.

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 4 to take action against the 5th respondent for encroaching reserve forest land situated in S.No.594 Naduvattam Village of Nilgiris District and consequently remove all the illegal constructions and developments made by the 5th respondent in the reserve forest and also in her patta lands.)

1. The matter pertains to encroachment in a forest land. The allegation in the petition is that the fifth respondent had encroached into reserve forest land at S.No.594, Naduvattam Village in the Nilgiris. The fifth respondent is represented and it is submitted by the fifth respondent that she is a micro-biologist, who grows medicinal plants for distributing the same among poor peasants and local inhabitants. The fifth respondent insists that she has appropriate title and permission to occupy the land that is in her possession.

2. In the earlier orders on this petition, even as the court required the official respondents to look into the specific allegation of the petitioner in this case, the court also required the State to monitor al