AB SHAKOOR Vs. COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONERS questioned the order passed by respondent No.1 in a file No. 5/97 -98, dated 1/7/97, rejecting application u/s 18 of the Land acquisition Act (hereinafter referred to the Act), and requiring the said respondent to refer the matter for determination by the court so far it concerned compensation.

(2.) CASE of the petitioners as projected in the writ petition is that award in this case appears to have been finalised on 3l/8/96. After receipt of notice under sections 9 and 9 - A of the Act vide Annexure -A to the writ petition, claim was filed by them before the authority concerned in response to it vide Annexure -B. It appears that proceedings finally terminated in the finalisation of the award supra by the respondent No. 1.

(3.) COPY of this award is annexed by the respondents alongwith their objections to this writ petition as Annexure R -1. A reference to it indicates that there is nothing on record to suggest whether any of the petitioners and or their attorney was present at the time when it was pronounced. In addition to this there is also nothing on the file attached by the respondents alongwith their objections to indicate that notice of award was issued to any of the petitioners as required under law.