Karnataka Power Transmission vs B R Venaktesh Bhatta on 21 February, 2025
28. Learned counsel for the respondent has placed
reliance on the judgment of this Court in the case of A.M.
Lingaraju vs. Karnataka Power Transmission
Corporation Ltd., in W.P. No.58212 of 2015 to contend that
this Court has declined to award compensation in respect of
the areca nut trees raised under the high tension wire and it
has urged that since the construction has come up after the
high tension wire was laid over the property of the
petitioners, petitioners are not entitled to compensation.