SHEO PRAKASH SINHA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SINCE common question of law arises on the basis of identical facts in all the three writ applications, they are heard and disposed of together by this common order.

(2.) CHALLENGE in these writ petitions is against the initiation of the land acquisition proceeding vide I.A. Case No. 1 of 2006 -07 (Annexure -3) in respect of the lands belonging to the petitioners. The petitioners have challenged the notification issued under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act and the declaration under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act.

(3.) THE grievance of the petitioners is that they were never informed by the respondents by serving them a notice, as required under the provisions of Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act and they could learn about the initiation of the proceeding pending before the Land Acquisition Officer (respondent no. 6) through the newspapers on 26.4.2008. Upon such knowledge, the petitioners had promptly filed their respective objections in the land acquisition proceeding which was initiated vide I.A. Case NO.1 of 2006 -07, but no order was passed on the objections of the petitioners and on the other hand, the respondent no. 6 has almost completed the process of acquisition by preparing the awards for payment of compensation and that too in the name of dead persons such as late Wahid Ali from whose heirs and successors, the petitioners and several others had purchased different portions of the land and had acquired right and title over such lands.