JUDGMENT

Dated this the 2nd day of December, 2021

Shaji P. Chaly, J.

Petitioners in W.P.(C)No.14782 of 2021 have filed the appeal challenging the judgment of the learned single Judge dated 13.10.2021, whereby the following reliefs sought for in the writ petition are declined and the writ petition was dismissed:

“i. To issue a Writ of Certiorari or other appropriate Writ, order or direction quashing the Ext P28 and P16 to P18 (a), P32 to the extent it affected the properties of the Petitioners, being illegal, malafide, unjust, irrational and unreasonable.

ii. To declare that the entire acquisition proceedings in questions as far as the petitioners' properties are concerned, are illegal, irrational and unenforceable.

iii. To issue a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ or direction, commanding respondents not to proceed with petitioners' properties, as the proceedings are dehors the Act, malafide and illegal.”

Brief material facts for the disposal of the appeal are as follows:

2. In the writ petition the basic contention advanced by the appellants is that the alignment for widening NH-66 from chainage 405+700 to 409+100 (about 400 meters) within the Kapprikkad – Edappally section is il