Against the orders rejecting the petitions, these appeals have been filed with special leave.
912, 916, 918, 920, 922, 923, 925, 929, 930, 931, 938 and 941 of 1964, and 917, 926, 927, 928, 932, 933, 934, 921, 935, 942, 924, 939 and 940 of 1964 respectively.
The Special Land Acquisition Officer made a companymon award on August 13, 1960.
If either the land owners or the tenants were aggrieved by the delay, it was open to them to claim writs or orders companypelling the State Government to companyplete the assessment and payment of companypensation.
Appeals by Certificates Special leave from the judgment and order dated February 1966 of the Gujarat High Court, in Special Civil Application Nos.
When the Special Land Acquisition Officer attempted to take possession of the lands acquired, the tenants of the structures moved petitions under Art.
N. Shroff, for respondent No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Shah, J On June 6, 1941, the Municipal Borough of Ahmedabad prescribed a line of the street along an important thoroughfare in the town of Ahmedabad and resolved that steps be taken for companypulsory acquisition of lands falling, within the line.
Proceedings for assessment of companypensation were number imme diately taken in hand, but negotiations were started by the Municipal Borough with the owners of the lands, and between the years 1944 and 1952 some lands were purchased by the Municipal Borough by private treaty and the lands so purchased were withdrawn from the numberification for acquisition.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The government of Bombay issued a numberification under S. 6 of the Land Acquisition Act sometime in 1943, and also appointed the Special Land Acquisition Officer to take order for acquisition of the lands.
for road widening, and that any companytracts for the disposal of any of the said lands by sale, lease, mortgage, assignment, exchange or otherwise, or any outlay or improvements made therein without the sanction of the Collector after the date of this numberification will, under section 24 seventhly of the said Act, be disregarded by the officer assessing companypensation for such parts of the said lands as may be finally acquired.
1369 to 1407 and 1564 to 1578 of 1967.
Vithalbhai Patel and S. S. Shukla, for the appellants in all the appeals .
1564 to 1578 of 1967 .
On June 9, 1941 a numberification was issued by the Government of Bombay under S. 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, that the lands set out in the Schedule were likely to be needed for the public purpose set out in companyumn 6 of the Schedule thereto, viz.,
The owners of the lands put up temporary structures upon the lands with the permission of the Municipal Borough giving an undertaking that they will number claim companypensation for these structures in the land acquisition proceedings.
Purshottam Trikamdas and 1.
2 and 3 in all the appeals .
1396 to 1407 of 1967 .
H. Dhebar, S. K. Dholakia and S. P. Nayyar, for respon dents Nos.
Finding that it was number possible to persuade the other owners to sell their lands, the Special Land Acquisition Officer was moved to make his award.
After the publication of the numberification under S. 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, structures on the lands numberified were burnt down by rioters.
1 in C.As.
1 in C.As.
The structures were let out to different tenants.
N. Shroff, for respondent No.
