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Cont P No.909 of 2022

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 27.03.2023

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE N.ANAND VENKATESH

Cont.P.No.909 of 2022

1. Elachiana Gounder @

Elaiya Gounder

2. Ramasamy

3. Samiyathal

4. M.Moorthy

5. M.Saravanan

6. K.Jayaraj

7. Arunachalam

8. M.Palanisamy

9. Kannammal

10. V.Shanmugam

11. B.Sasikumar

12. P.Nagendran

13. Tamil Selvi

14. C.Pavathi

15. C.Thirumoorthy

16. C.Boopathy

17. R.Palanisamy

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18. R.Subramani @ Subburayan

19. Nallammal

20. T.Palanisamy

21. Loganathan

22. P.Shanmugam

23. M.P.Chinnasamy

24. Samiyathal

25. Annakodi

.....Petitioners

Vs.

1. P.Ranganathan

Revenue Divisional Officer,

(Land Acquistion Officer)

Brough Road,

Erode – 638 001

Erode District.

2. The Managing Director,

Tamil Nadu Housing Board,

No.497, Anna Salai, Nandanam,

Chennai 600 035

[Suo-motu impleaded as the 2^nd respondent

as per order of the Court dated 22.07.2022 made in

Cont P No.909 of 2022]

.... Respondents

Contempt Petition filed under section 11 of the Contempt

of Courts Act, to punish the respondent herein for the wilful

disobedience of the order dated 09.12.2020 in WP No.6000 of

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2020.

For Petitioner

:

Mr.N.Manoharan

For Respondents :

Mrs.V.Yamuna Devi

Special Government Pleader

for R1

Mr.M.K.Kabir, Standing counsel

for R2.

ORDER

This Contempt Petition was filed on the ground that

the order passed by this Court in WP No.6000 of 2020 dated

09.12.2020 was not been complied with.

2.

When the matter came up for hearing on 26.08.2022,

this Court passed the following order :-

Pursuant to the earlier orders passed by this

Court on 05.08.2022, Thiru.Shunchonngam Jatak

Chiru, I.A.S., Managing Director of the Tamil Nadu

Housing Board was present at the time of hearing.

2.The learned Senior Counsel appearing on

behalf of the Housing Board submitted that even if

the compensation fixed has to be paid by the

Housing Board, the Managing Director cannot take

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a suo motu decision and the matter has to be

necessarily placed before the Board before getting a

sanction for the payment of the compensation

redetermined by the Revenue Divisional Officer,

Erode. Therefore, learned Senior Counsel sought for

some time.

3.This contempt petition is posted for hearing

on 23.09.2022 at 2.15 p.m. This Court expects that

the matter will be placed before the Board and

necessary sanction will be obtained by then.

4.The presence of the Managing Director,

Tamil Nadu Housing Board is dispensed with for the

present.

3.

When the matter came up for hearing on 06.01.2023,

this Court passed the following order:-

The learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of

the respondent submitted that substantial amounts

have been settled in favour of the petitioners and

that certain discrepancies were pointed out in the

calculation of the compensation and the same is

being looked into and the compliance shall be

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reported before the next hearing date.

2.Post this contempt petition under the

caption “for reporting compliance” on 30.01.2023.

4.

The matter was thereafter posted for hearing on

03.02.2023 and the following order was passed :-

The learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of

the respondents submitted that the discrepancies

that were pointed out by the petitioners has been

taken into account and the balance compensation