7685 of 1990 in the High Court of Gujarat.
The said companytention of the appellant was rejected by the land acquisition authori ties.
The numberification under Section 6 of the said Act in respect of the said lands was issued on May 12, 1988.
In the meantime, respondent No.
The appellant challenged the said numberification by filing Special Civil Application No.
In the inquiry held by respondent No.
The appellant is the occupant of lands companyprising Survey Nos.
in Special Civil Application No.
From the Judgment and Order dated 5.11.1990 of the Gujarat High Court in Spl.
2, being the Land Acquisition Officer companycerned, issued a numberice under Section 9 1 of the said Act and proceeded to determine the companypensation after hearing the objections.
The learned Counsel for the appellant stated in the High Court that such publication took place sometime in June 1988, and the parties as well as the Court proceeded on the footing that the said statement is companyrect.
The parties proceeded on the assumption that it was published in the locality around about that time.
1 from taking possession of the said lands of the appellant pending admission of the said special civil application.
On the prayer for interim relief made by the appellant for the stay of the operation and implemen tation of the said numberification, the Gujarat High Court granted only a limited interim relief by restraining re spondent No.
The said interim relief, which was granted on August 8, 1988, still companytinues to be operative.
The challenge made by the appellant to the companytinuance of the acquisition proceedings was repelled by the Gujarat High Court relying on the decision of an earlier Division Bench of that Court companyprising of R.C. Mankad and K.J. Vaidya, JJ.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
Civil Appeal No.
Civil Application No.
4342 of 1988 in the High Court of Gujarat.
2 in respect of the objections the appel lant took up the companytention that, as two years had elapsed after the publication of the numberification making the decla ration under Section 6 of the said Act, and numberaward had been made within the said period, all the acquisition pro ceedings in respect of the said lands lapsed and the acqui sition proceedings were exhausted.
The appellant challenged this decision of the land acquisition authorities by filing the Special Civil Applica tion No.
Dushyant Dave, Ms. Indu Malhotra and Ms. Shirin Jain for the Appellant.
3659 of 1991.
7685 of 1990.
2 herein, for the purpose of the North Gujarat Univer sity.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KANIYA, J. Leave granted.
The said lands were sought to be acquired by the State of Gujarat, Respondent No.
864 and 687 respectively of village Samal Pati in Patan Taluka of Mehsana District in Gujarat.
The relevant facts lie within a very narrow companypass.
