Chennai, November 15: Three residents of Cenotaph Road here have again approached the Madras High Court, complaining that the authorities were attempting to take over lands in excess of the extent notified for the service lane alongside the flyover.
Justice P Jyothimani, before whom the joint petition of J Gunalakshmi and two others came up for hearing, has asked the government to consider the representations of these residents and pass appropriate orders in accordance with law. The judge also recorded advocate-general’s statement that no portion of the petitioners’ lands, other than the one notified earlier, had been taken over by the authorities.
Pointing out that the petitioners have submitted representations to the authroties on October 1 and 5, the judge asked the land acquisition officer/tahsildar to pass orders on the representations within two weeks. He, however, did not restrain the authorities from “putting up service lane on the demolished area of the petitioners’ property.”
The mini-flyover project at the Cenotaph Road-Turnbulls Road junction has already passed through two rounds of litigations, over the acquisition of lands and the manner of acquisition by the authorities. Now the petitioners’ objection is over the service lane.
They said the lands over and above the sanctioned plan was sought to be acquired. Calling for uniformity in the acquisition proceedings, the petitioners said otherwise bottleneck would be formed in the area affecting the free flow of traffic and causing great inconvenience to road-users.
—Agencies