FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8475 OF 2011 "Mr. Dnyanoba s/o .Piraji Ainile Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 1 Mr. Manoj D. Shinde, Advocate for petitioner. Mr. K.G. Patil, AGP for respondents. CORAM :- B.R. GAVAI & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATE :- 15th NOVEMBER, 2011. PER COURT :- 1] Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard by consent finally. 2] The petitioner impugns the communication dated 20th September, 2011 issued by the respondent No.3, thereby refusing to grant Certificate of Project Affected Person, to the petitioner. 3] The certificate is denied to the petitioner only on the ground that the land has been acquired for Railway Broad- gauging and that as per the scheme prevailing the certificate cannot be granted when the land is acquired for the said purpose. 4] This court has taken a view in several other matters that benefits under the Maharashtra Project Affected Persons Rehabilitation Act, 1986 are to be given to the persons whose FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 8475 OF 2011 "Mr. Dnyanoba s/o .Piraji Ainile Vs. The State of Maharashtra and others." Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's Orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. 2 land is acquired for a public purpose. It cannot be disputed that broad-gauging of railway is a public purpose. In that view of the matter, we are inclined to allow the petition. 5] Rule is , therefore, made absolute in terms of prayer clause (B) and (C), with no orders as to costs. [M.T. JOSHI,J.] [B.R. GAVAI, J.] grt/-