PREM SINGH Vs. UNION TERRITORY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order shall dispose of Civil Writ Petition Nos. 14685, 14686 of 1998, 16124 of 1998 and 8039 of 2005 as common question of law and facts are involved in all these petitions.

(2.) THE petitioners have claimed by filing these petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution that notification dated 31.1.1992 (Annexure P-1) issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for brevity 'the Act') as also declaration issued under Section 6 of the Act on 29.1.1993 (Annexure P.2) be quashed. A further prayer has also been made for quashing subsequent notices dated 31.8.1998 issued under Section 9 of the Act (Annexures P.3 and 3A). The principal ground taken in the petition is that the respondents have not announced the award within the stipulated period of two years as per the requirement of Section 11-A of the Act. It has also been pleaded that in any case no permission from the competent authority before announcement of the award was obtained.

(3.) THE respondents have further pleaded that Kailash Wati's case (supra) and many other writ petitions have already been dismissed involving the same notifications either in respect of this very pocket of land or in respect of another pocket of land for which notifications under Sections 4 and 6 of the Act were issued on the same day as there was common purpose contemplated, namely, development of residential-cum-commercial complex and for construction of College Building and Sports Stadium.