SATISH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE above petitions have been preferred by the petitioners who claim themselves to be natives of three villages namely Bhatta, Parasaul and Acheypur which saw pitched battle between the District Administration and the villagers of the aforesaid three villages on 7.5.2011. The genesis of the trouble lay in their agricultural land having been acquired by the District Administration by invoking Emergency Clause of section 17 of the Land Acquisition Act which gave rise initially to remonstration by demonstration/agitation on various dates which, with the passage of time snowballed into a full-fledged battle on 7.5.2011 resulting in injuries and consequent death of some of the people both on side of administration as well as village people.

(2.) PETITIONER no 8-Harshwardhan V. Sapkal- in writ petition (PIL) No 13109 of 2011, gave his credentials as a social worker who claims to have plied himself to the service of the farmers across the country and out of his anxiety for their rights and to secure justice for them, he has applied for being impleaded in this petition. The aforesaid petitioner, it would appear, had initially preferred a writ petition in the Apex Court and the Apex Court relegated him to the jurisdiction of this Court observing that the High Court is already seized of the matter relating to the violence in the aforesaid three villages. It is in this conspectus that the writ petition no 13109 of 2011 has been connected with other writ petitions.

(3.) WE have heard Sri Gopal Chaturvedi, learned Senior Advocate who advanced arguments on behalf of the petitioners and learned AGA at prolix length and have also delved into the materials on record.