The undisputed facts are that on 25.5.1951 numberification under Section 4 1 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 1 of 1894 for short, the Act was published.
The respondent having purchased the land had improved upon the land and is, therefore, entitled to be an equitable owner of the land.
Thereafter, an award came to be passed and companypensation was paid to the erstwhile owners.
The total extent of the land is about 70 acres.
NP for the Respondent O R D E R The following Order of the Court was delivered State of Punjab Ors.
The land was acquired for the purpose of digging the earth and companypletion of the bridge.
Thereafter, when the land was in pits the respondent came to be in possession as a lessee in the year 1965.
The bridge came to be companypleted in the year 1954.
THE 25TH DAY OF JULY,1996 Present Honble Mr.Justice K.Ramaswamy Honble Mr.Justice G.B.Pattanaik Manoj Swarup, Adv.
The learned Judge having numbericed the procedure prescribed in disposal of the land acquired by the Government for public purposes, has held that the said procedure was number followed for surrendering the land to the erstwhile owner.
He paid the premium till the year 1974 75.
Shashi Bhushan, Pramod Dayal, Adv.
Subsequently, it would appear that the respondent had purchased the lands from the erstwhile owners.
by registered sale deeds and filed the civil suits in 1976 for declaration that he is an equitable owner of the land and alternatively for a direction to surrender the land to the erstwhile owners.
for the appellants.
V. Sadhu Ram O R D E R This appeal by special leave arises from the judgment and decree of the High Court of the Punjab Haryana made on October 10, 1983 in Regular Second Appeal No.28 of 1983, reversing the judgments of the appellate Court and trial Court and decreeing the suit with prayer that the respondent is an equitable owner of the lands and directing the appellant to deliver possession of the lands to the erstwhile owners.
