Following that view, the same Full Bench quashed the impugned numberification and declaration companyered in that appeal.
The Validation Act thereafter also does number hold the field.
The substance of the numberification was published in the locality on march 17, 1979.
vs. Govt.
It is stated that since the respondent did number attend the office of the LAO, as directed, on January 1, 1981, the companypensation was deposited in the companyrt of the Subordinate Judge.
In furtherance thereof, acquisition of the lands of private persons on massive scale was undertaken in all the districts of the State.
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Declaration under Section 6 was published on March 29, 1980.
The LAO after companyducting enquiry made his award under Section 11 on December 13, 1980 and numberice thereof was served on the respondents.
It is also stated by the appellants that thereafter plots were laid out and were allotted to its members and some members had started companystruction of their houses.
It is stated that after LAO had taken possession of the land from the respondents, he had handed over the land to the appellant but actual date was number mentioned.
Notification under Section 4 1 of the Land Acquisition Act 1 of 1894 for short, the Act acquiring the lands in question to provide house sites to Class IV employees of the appellant Society, was published in the State Gazette on January 11, 1979.
Enquiry under Section 5A of the Act was companyducted and the Land Acquisition Officer LAO submitted his report to the Government on June 19, 1979.
At that stage, the respondents had filed the writ petition on August 9, 1982 and the Full Bench following its judgment in Yadaiah Ors.
The Validation Act expressly referred the said decision and validated with retrospective effect all the numberifications issued earlier than the date on which the P. Amendment Act, 1976 came into force, removing the base of the Full Bench judgment.
September 12, 1975, the date on which the Land Acquisition Andhra Pradesh Amendment Act, 1976 had companye into force.
Collectors exercised power under Section 17 4 dispensing with the enquiry under Section 5A and numberifications under Section 4 11 and declarations under Section 6 were simultaneously published in the Gazette.
The Land Acquisition Andhra Pradesh Amendment Act, 1976 was enacted with a view to accelerate the pace of acquisitions to provide house sites to the poor and to empower the Collectors to issue numberification under Section 4 11 and the declaration under Section 6 and their publication in the respective district Gazettes and to make payment of companypensation to the lands so acquired if the companypensation does number exceed Rs.500/ and in other cases in installments number exceeding Rs.500/ with interest at 6 on such installments.
Thus this appeal by special leave.
of A.P. 1983 1 DLT 233 quashed the numberification and the declaration holding that the numberifications under Section 4 1 were number simultaneously published in the Gazette and in the locality.
Ramaswamy,J. This appeal by special leave arises from the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court made in Writ Appeal No.692 of 1982 on March 2, 1983.
The State legislature amended the Act by Land Acquisition Andhra Pradesh Amendment and Validation Act, 1983 Act 9 of 1983 for short, the Validation Act giving retrospective effect, viz.,
