The main legal point established in the judgment is the duty of the Land Acquisition Officer to conduct an inquiry under Section 9 of the Land Acquisition Act to resolve disputes regarding compensation for acquired land.

JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, call for the records of the 6th respondent call letter in Na.Ka.52/2012 dated 30.06.2022 and to quash the same and directing the 6th respondent not to take any action for issuing compensation of land in Patta No.1722 in Survey No.201/13, in revenue village of Mampakkam, Sriperumbathur Taluk and the 6th respondent to conducting the enquiry after the final decision of the 4th respondent as the file in Ref.No.3650/AA3/2022.)

1. This Writ Petition has been filed seeking for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to call for the records of the 6th respondent call letter in Na.Ka.52/2012 dated 30.06.2022 and to quash the same and directing the 6th respondent not to take any action for issuing compensation of land in Patta No.1722 in Survey No.201/13, in revenue village of Mampakkam, Sriperumbathur Taluk and the 6th respondent to conduct the enquiry after the final decision of the 4th respondent as the file in Ref.No.3650/AA3/2022.

2. Mr.G.Krishna Raja, learned Additional Government Pleader takes notice on behalf of the official respondents. Since no adverse order is being passed against the private respondent, notice to the private respondent is dispensed with.

3. The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner claims that he is the owner of the land in Survey No.201/13, measuring an extent of 0.21 cents or 0.08.50 ares, which is situated at No.39, Mambakkam Village, Sriperampatur Taluk, Kanchipuram Distirct. The above said land is derived from his grandfather and he had executed a registered Settlement Deed, dated 29.10.2010 in favour of the petitioner. After the execution of said settlement deed, the patta and other Revenue Records were mutated in the name of the petitioner vide Patta No.1722 and also paid necessary charges towards the land. The said land is sought to be acquired by the Land Acquisition Authority under the Industrial Purpose Act, 1997 and the third respondent has issued proceedings vide letter Na.Ka.No.52/2012 F5 dated 08.11.2012. Thereafter, the third respondent conducted a meeting with the owners of the land with regard to the acquisition proceedings on 04.02.2022. On the said date, the petitioner also participated in the meeting, he came to know that the seventh respondent created a fabricated document in respect of the aforesaid property in order to grab the compensation under the land acquisition process. Therefore, the petitioner made a complaint dated 20.06.2022 before the fourth respondent/District Registrar under Section 68(2) of the Registration Act, 1908, seeking to conduct enquiry and to cancel the alleged fabricated Sale deed Doc.No.4515/1995, and the same was taken on the file of the fourth respondent as Ref.No.3650/AA3/2022. Since the fourth respondent/District Registrar has not conducted any enquiry on the petitioner's complaint, the six respondent/The Special Tahsildar has initiated proceedings vide Na.Ka.52/2012 and issued a letter dated 30.06.2022, calling upon the petitioner to appear before the fifth respondent/District Revenue Officer on 15.07.2022. Challenging the same, the petitioner has filed the present Writ Petition.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is the owner of the property and the seventh respondent herein made a fraudulent document in Doc.No.4515/1995 in order to grab the property from the petitioner, for which, already the petitioner made a complaint before the fourth respondent/District Registrar to cancel the fraudulent document created by the seventh respondent. Meanwhile, the seventh respondent made an application before the Land Acquisition Officer for claiming the compensation under the land acquisition process. However, the Land Acquisition Officer has no power to conduct enquiry, when the document is put in question before the fourth respondent/District Registrar. Accordingly, he prays for passi