JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Contempt Petition filed under Section 11 of Contempt of the Courts Act, 1971, for wilful disobedience of the order passed in W.M.P.No.3683 of 2020 in W.P.No.3177 of 2020, dated 10.02.2020.)

1. The facts germane to filing of this Contempt Petition are as follows :

(i) That for a National Highways Scheme to be undertaken by National Highways Authority of India (in short “NHAI”), certain lands in Sriperumbudur Taluk, Kanchipuram District, were sought to be acquired.

(ii) Notification in this regard was issued by Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on 05.12.2017.

(iii) In this process, lands were acquired from two villages, namely Nemili-A and Ayakolathur villages.

(iv) In the land acquisition proceedings, as per the award passed, compensation were disbursed to the land owners.

(v) While that being so, one Rajendran, S/o. Ramasamy had filed a writ petition in W.P.No.3177 of 2020, where he claimed that, he was having vacant lands at various nagars developed in that villages by some developers, out of which, lands earmarked for public purposes like road, street, public utility like school, park etc