JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letter Patent praying to set aside the order passed by this Court in W.P.No.7846 of 2005 dated 28.04.2018.)

P.B. Balaji, J

1. The unsuccessful writ petitioner is the appellant before us. She had filed the Writ Petition seeking to quash the Section-4(1) Notification as well as the consequential Section-6 Declaration under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, as being illegal in so far as it related to her lands and to consequently forbear the Respondents from acquiring the Petitioner’s lands.

2. The case of the Writ petitioner before the Writ Court was that she was never served with any notice of Land Acquisition proceedings by any authorities and that only in November 2004, on receipt of information from the neighbours, she came to know that some proceedings had been initiated. The Petitioner, thereafter made representations to the District Collector, Thilluvallur and also to the Special Tahsildar, Adi Dravidar Welfare, Thiruvallur on 01.12.2004 and 02.12.2004 respectively. As there was no response from both the authorities, the writ petitioner filed a Writ of Mandamus to direct the District Collector, Thiruvallur to consider her representat