At the time when the Notification under Section 4 1 was issued on 30.3.1995, the provisions of Section 17 4 of the Land Acquisition Act were invoked and enquiry under Section 5A of the Act was dispensed with.
It appears that the stay which was granted by the High Court pending the Writ Petitions, on 19.2.99, stood vacated on 29.5.98 and thereafter, possession of the lands was taken on 15.6.1998.
Land was acquired for purposes of companystruction of a Housing Colony under the Planned Development Scheme in village Dhimri Pargana, District Moradabad, by the Moradabad Development Authority, Moradabad.
It may here be numbericed that though a vast extent of land was acquired in the above said land acquisition proceedings, the Writ Petitions mentioned above were filed only by a few among the persons whose lands were acquired.
A Notification under Section 4 1 of the Land Acquisition Act was issued on 30.3.1995.
The High Court upheld the land acquisition proceedings and dismissed the Writ Petitions by judgment dated 29.5.1998.
A declaration under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act was made in the Gazette on 18.12.1997.
These four appeals are filed by the Appellants herein questioning the companyrectness of the judgment of the Allahabad High Court dated 29.5.98 in a group of Writ Petitions.
A local publication was made on 17.5.1996 and the Notification was published in two newspapers on 19.5.96 and on 21.5.1996, in the locality.
Leave granted Application by Respondent Nos.
In these appeals, we are companycerned only with the land belonging to these limited group of Appellants.
In fact, there is a Certificate on record that possession was so taken by the Government.
4558/98, 4736/98, 709/98 12607/1998.
Along with these appeals, Contempt Petition C No.
Thereafter, two companyrigenda, one on 26.3.1996 and another on 1.8.96 were also issued.
In respect of the second companyrigendum, there was local publication on 10.2.1997.
The appeals before us arise out of the Writ Petition Nos.
Though there was earlier some dispute in this behalf, these facts are number number in dispute.
62/99 is also listed.
