In 1956 Nagarjuna Sagar Project Acquisition of Lands Act, 1956 in short the Nagarjuna Act was enacted.
All the Civil Appeals against those judgments were taken up by a Constitution Bench in Civil Appeal Nos.1220 42/82 and companynected matters.
The companyrectness of the judgment was questioned before this Court.
In 1979 writ petition was filed by one K. Rangaiah and others questioning companystitutional validity of Nagarjuna Act.
A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court by its judgment dated 31.8.1979 in writ petition No.2110/79 K. Rangaiah v. State of A.P. AIR 1980 A.P. 165 held that the amendment to Section 23 1 first clause of the Act as made by the Nagarjuna Act is violative of second proviso to Article 31 A of the Constitution of India, 1950 in short the Constitution only so far it relates to acquisition of land within the ceiling limit and is under personal cultivation.
ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. In these appeals challenge is to the judgment of a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court setting aside the orders awards made under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 in short the Act and directing Land Acquisition Officer to pass fresh awards keeping in view the observations made in the judgment.
Several other writ petitions were also decided following K. Rangaiahs case supra .
With C.A. Nos.3076/2003, 3080/2003, 3088/2003, 3090/2003, 3093/2003, 3094/2003, 3096/2003, 3101/2003, 3280 3294/2003, 3323 3341/2003 and 3614/2005 .
Under the said Act Sections 11 and 23 of the Act were amended.
This Court did number go into the companystitutional issues in view of the fact that respondents were small land owners having less than one acre of land.
A brief reference to the factual aspects would suffice.
