APPASAMY ASSOCIATES Vs. DISTRICT COLLECTOR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard the Learned Counsel for the Petitioner. Mr.R.Udayakumar, Learned Additional Government Pleader takes notice for the Respondents. With the consent on either side, the Writ Petition itself is taken up for final disposal.

(2.) According to the Petitioner/Company, the agricultural lands in Survey Nos.61 to 68, 71 to 75 and 77 inclusive of the sub divisions situated in Aaliyur Village, Villupuram Taluk, Villupuram District measuring an extent of 34.31 acres and the adjoining lands in Thiruvandankoil Village, within Puducherry Union Territory measuring 18.47 acres admeasuring were purchased on various dates between the year 1995-1998 from various persons by M/s.Karur KCP Packagings Limited. The said owner was in occupation of the abutting poramboke vacant land in S.No.60/1 measuring 66 cents or thereabouts and paying the penal charges on issue of 'B' Memo and through this land (S.No.60/1) runs the main road into the factory and the agricultural lands, since 1999, prior to that also the same was used as the road/pathway by their vendors to reach their lands from the N.H.45-A leading from Villupuram to Puducherry for many decades.

(3.) The Learned Counsel for the Petitioner submits that the agricultural and industrial lands were purchased by the Petitioner/ Company, during the year 2011 and they are running their own manufacturing establishment, from the factory buildings purchased from M/s.Karur KCP Packagings Limited, constructed over an extent of around 200,000 sq.ft. in the patta lands. The remaining lands are being used for agricultural purposes with the adjoining poramboke land lying vacant. As a matter of fact, the Petitioner is engaged in the manufacture of Sight Saving Equipment and related products viz., Microscopes, Lasers, Intraocular Lenses, Micro Surgical Instruments and Pharmaceuticals and over 800 employees are on their rolls of employment of which 60% comprise of women and they are providing job opportunities directly and indirectly to thousands of the people in and around the locality.