Heard Mr. Sunil Kumar, learned counsel for the
petitioners, Mr. Amit Bhushan, learned State counsel and Dr.
Maurya Vijay Chandra for the National Highway Authority of
India (for brevity, ‘the NHAI’)
2. The present petition has been preferred for the
following relief(s):
Patna High Court CWJC No.19292 of 2024(7) dt.13-03-2026
“for issuance of a writ in the nature of
writ of Certiorari quashing Notification No. S.O.
2724(E) dated 14.06.2022, published in “Prabhat
Khabar” and “Hindustan” by the competent
authority of the Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways, Government of India under sub-section
(1) of Section 3A of the National Highways Act,
1956, in respect of the land of the petitioners
bearing Khesara No. 233, 243, 245, 248, 249, 253,
254, 259, 260, 261 and 262 situated at Manikpur
village by which the NHAI has acquired the entire
area of their lands by altering in the earlier
alignment/Map in favour of “Blue Lotus Hotel” to
benefit the owner thereof whose small part of the
property would be acquired if the original
alignment is executed for the purpose of
construction, maintenance, management of four-