(1.) THIS order shall dispose of C.W.P. Nos. 3787, 3808 and 3823 of 2008. However, facts are being referred from C.W.P. No. 3787 of 2008. In all the petitions subject matter of challenge are notification dated 20.1.2003, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity, 'the Act') and declaration dated 16.1.2004, issued under Section 6 of the Act (Annexures P-1 and P-2 respectively). A further prayer for issuance of direction to the respondents for grant of licence to the petitioners to set up residential plotted colony has also been made, for which an application in the prescribed Form LC-I has already been submitted and stated to be under consideration of the respondents.
(2.) IT has been conceded by the learned counsel for the petitioners right at the out set that award has been announced by the respondents in January 2006.
(3.) WE have heard learned counsel at some length and has perused the paper book.