THE HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA
AND
THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE P. MADHAVI DEVI
WRIT APPEAL No.346 of 2021
JUDGMENT: (Per the Hon'ble the Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma)
The present writ appeal is arising out of common order
dated 07.06.2021 passed in W.P.No.18372 of 2020 and batch
by the learned Single Judge.
The facts of the case reveal that three writ petitions
were preferred by the appellants and other stating that the
National Highway Authority of India is dispossessing them
from their respective houses and, therefore, they be
restrained from dispossessing the appellants from their
houses without paying the awarded amount. The facts
further reveal that with the writ petitions no documents were
filed in respect of the title of the houses and documents were
filed in respect of the fact that the houses were in existence.
Not only this, earlier also writ petitions were preferred and
one such order is on record passed in W.P.No.2795 of 2020
on 18.02.2020, wherein the learned Single Judge has directed
the respondents therein to furnish a copy of the award to the
petitioners therein.
Undisputedly, in the present case also after the award was furnished to the appellants, they have preferred an application under Section 3G(5) of the National Highways Act, 2 1956 for enhancement of the awarded amount and those applications are still pending.
Learned counsel for the appellants has fairly stated before this Court that the respondents be directed to decide the applications within some reasonable time.
Resultantly, without averting to the merits of the case, respondent No.2 - Land Acquisition Officer-cum-Joint Collector, Mancherial District, is directed to decide the applications positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this order.
With the aforesaid, the writ appeal stands disposed of. The appellants shall also be free to appear before the aforesaid authority and thereafter the said authority shall pass appropriate order in accordance with law.
Miscellaneous petitions, if any, pending in this writ appeal shall stand closed. There shall be no order as to costs.
__________________________________ SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA, CJ ______________________________ P. MADHAVI DEVI, J 02.11.2021 ES