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Land near Central cleared for CMRL project
Posted on: 17/Jul/2013 11:36:43 AM
A Division Bench of the Madras High Court has set aside the order of a single judge from November last year, asking the government to show proper notices sent to the owners of a piece of land near Chennai Central Station. The government was trying to acquire this land for the Channai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) project.
The Division Bench comprising of Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and M. Venugopal said, ‘There was voluminous material to show that the government had issued notices to the Administrator-General and Official Trustee (AG and OT) in respect of the property concerned… The property undoubtedly belonged to the government, but it was vested with the trust for a specific charitable purpose. Under a scheme framed by the High Court due to some litigation, the AG and OT, administering that trust property, had granted lease in favour of various parties. When the AG and OT was administering the trust, the government should issue notice only to him and not to the tenants. Accordingly, notices had been properly served on him and he, in turn, had served notices on the tenants and lessees. The tenants were not direct tenants under the government. Thus, the notices served through the official trustee satisfied the principles of natural justice.’
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