B.N. Srikrishna, J.

The respondent filed a writ petition before the High Court of judicature of Allahabad seeking a writ of Mandamus to the appellant-State of Uttar Pradesh and its officers to determine the compensation in respect of his land bearing plot No. 3 Ka (0.29 acres), 4 (0.37 acres) and 3 kha (1.01 acres) in village Chakiya Bhagwanpur, Tehsil Lalganj, District Azamgarh, which, according to the respondent, had been taken away forcibly without following any process of law. It was the specific case of the respondent that he had been dispossessed from his land and the land had been taken by the appellants without payment of any compensation and further that the appellants had put up building and structures on the land sometime in 1955 and that despite repeated appeals made by him nobody was prepared to pay compensation. He enclosed alongwith the writ petition a letter no. 73/S.T.D.M-91 dated 9.10.91 written by the Collector, Azamgarh to the Special Land Acquisition Officer Azamgarh to the following effect:

"Please refer to the application of Shri Manohar s/o Raghunath, Mauja Kharga Bhagwanpur, Block Lalganj (enclosed). He has stated that the compensation for the land acquired f