HIGHCOURTQFJUDICATURE^HHATTISGARH : BLLASPUR Single Bench: Hon'bie Shri S.R. Nayak, CJ Writ Petition No. 6077 OF 2005 PETITIONERS 2. Versus RESPONDENTS Ramavter Yadav, S/o Shri Bhuku Yadav, aged about 48 years, R/o - Village - Kharora, !n front of Nagar Panchayat, Thana - Kharora, District - Raipur,(C.G.) Smt. Sundaria Bai, S/o Shri T.N. Venna, aged about - 50 yeare, R/o - Viilage Kharora, In front of Nagar Panchayat, Thana - Kharora, District-Raipur(C.G.) State ofChhattisgarh, Through: Secretary, Town and Countn/ Pianning Department Mantralaya D.K.S. Shawan, Raipur (C.G.) Chief Municipal Officer, Nagar Panchayat, Kharora, Disirict - Raipur (C.G.) Present: Mr.Y.C. Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioners. Mr.Parag Kotecha, leamed Panei Lawyer, for the State. ORAL ORDER (Passed on 1ST of December 2005$ Admittedly, the petitioners are the encroachers. The Chief Municipal-Officer, Nagar Panchayat, Kharora, District Raipur, second respondent hsrein, has issued notice dated 18/11/2005 marked as Annexure-P/1 calling upon the petitioners to remove the encroachments made bv them on the grouna that the subject iand is required by the Nagar Panchayat, K'narora for its own purposes. Since the petitioners are -a- admittedfy encroachere of the land belonging to the second respondent, they can have no justification to question the legality of the impugned notice. However, it was contended by learned counsel for the petitioners that since the petitionere belong to down-trodden segments of the society, they are entitled to be provided atternative iand in terms of Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana. Even assuming that the petitioners are entiUed to a!ternative !and in terms of the' Vaimiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana, that circumstance itsslf would not sntitte the petitioners to squat on the land of the second respondent - Nagar panchayat, Kharora, particularly when the said tand is required by Nagar Panchayat for its own purposes, at the peril of public interest. (2) In that view of the matter, the reliefe ciaimed in this writ petition cannot be granted to the petitioners. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. However, it is made ciear that this order shall not come in the way of the petitioners in making applications under the Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana for alternative site/land, if they are entitled in terms of Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana. There is no order as to costs. Sd/- Chief Justice 3-ft-iy