NAJMUDDIN Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Appellant is before us aggrieved by and dissatisfied with a judgment and order dated 25.8.2006 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Delhi in CM No. 7244 of 2005 and Writ Petition No. 2068 of 1985.

(3.) Appellants who are three in number filed the aforementioned writ petition in the year 1985 questioning the validity and/or legality of a notification issued by the Union of India seeking to acquire lands bearing Khasra No. 186, admeasuring 3 Bigha 6 Biswas pertaining to Khewat No. 50/50, Khatoni No. 100 and Khasra No. 334/206 admeasuring 3 bigha 6 biswas as per Khewat No. 92/96, Khatoni No. 174, both situated at Village Begumpur, Tehsil Mehrauli, Delhi purported to be in terms of the Resettlement of Displaced Persons (Land Acquisition) Act, 1948 (for short, 'the Act'). Indisputably, the said Act was enacted in the wake of partition of the country as a result whereof there was a large scale migration to and from India.