The Madras High Court has succeeded in helping the Tamil Nadu government retrieve 1.54 acres of prime land in Chennai, that had been in private occupation since 1861, at Pallavaram cantonment, and hand it over to the Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL).
Justices S.S. Sundar and N. Senthilkumar brought the curtains down to a long-pending litigation on the issue and obtained an undertaking from the present occupiers of the land to handover vacant possession of the property to CMRL within two weeks.
The judges directed Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) to restore electricity to the premises for two weeks so that the proprietors of Gupta Swabs Limited could remove their machines, shed and all other material from the land. The judges made it clear that the removal must happen in the presence of CMRL officials. Ordering that the restoration of electricity must be used only for bona fide purposes, the Bench said, Tangedco could disconnect power supply if it detected any irregularity or illegality.
