RAJESH BINDAL, GURVINDER SINGH GILL
Harbans Singh – Appellant
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Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited – Respondent
Mr. Rajesh Bindal, J.:- The petitioners, on whose land power transmission towers are sought to be erected by the respondents, have filed the present petition impugning the notification dated 22.02.2017 issued for the purpose.
2. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners submitted that in the notification dated 22.02.2017, all what has been mentioned is the route for 220KV BBMB Jalandhar-220 KV Pong DC line (Ckt-3) at 220 KV S/Stn. Alawalpur with length of 1.643 kilometers. The petitioners’ land is located in village Lesdiwal, Hadbast No. 145, Tehsil Jalandhar-1 (Adampur) District Jalandhar. The contents of the notification were totally vague. Neither names of villages through which the transmission line was to be laid nor the route thereof had been mentioned. Even khasra numbers of the land, right to use of which was to be acquired, was not mentioned. Hence, the petitioners were unable to file any objection or make suggestions. Substantive right of the petitioners was taken by erecting towers of high tension electric wires in their land. They should have been granted proper opportunity to raise issues or make suggestions to the authorities, as there were alternative/shorte
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