HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.28373 OF 2009 ORDER: While several contentions are raised by Sri Shyam S.Agarwal, Learned Counsel for the petitioners, regarding non- payment of compensation to the petitioners and by Sri Y.S.Ravindra, Learned Standing Counsel that the Writ Petition is belatedly filed, it is wholly unnecessary for this Court to examine any of these contentions in as much as Sri Y.S.Ravindra, Learned Standing Counsel for the Outer Ring Road, would submit that out of three awards, in respect of two Awards i.e. Nos.38/2005 and 38-II/2005, which relate to the petitioners’ land in Sy.No.508, the Land Acquisition Officer was ready and willing to pay compensation to the first petitioner herein; and in respect of the third Award, whereby the petitioners’ land in Sy.No.476 of an extent of Ac.5.11 guntas was acquired, the matter has already been referred to the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District on 31.03.2006; it was returned with certain objections; and the matter has been re-presented on 16.01.2010 after compliance with the objections. Learned Standing Counsel would further submit that the compensation payable under the award, in relation to lands acquired in Sy.No.476, has already been deposited in the Court of Principal District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District. In the light of the submissions made by Sri Y.S.Ravindra, Learned Standing Counsel for the Outer Ring Road, I consider it appropriate to direct the Land Acquisition Officer to permit the first petitioner to submit a representation to the Land Acquisition Officer who shall, within three weeks from the date of receipt of the representation from the first petitioner, pay the compensation, payable under award Nos.38/2005 and 38-II/2005, (both relating to Sy.No.508) to the first petitioner. In so far as the compensation payable, for acquisition of the petitioners’ lands in Sy.No.476 of an extent of Ac.5.11 guntas, is concerned as the matter has already been referred to the Civil Court, under Section 30 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’), it is open to the petitioners to take appropriate steps in this regard before the Civil Court to whom the reference under Section 30 of the Act is made. While Sri Shyam S.Agarwal, Learned Counsel for the petitioners, would submit that an application under Section 18 of the Act has already been filed within time, Sri Y.S.Ravindra, Learned Standing Counsel for the Outer Ring Road, would dispute this assertion and contend that the said application has been filed not by the awardee, but by the second petitioner who is not entitled to seek a reference under Section 18 of the Act. Ends of justice would be met if the petitioners were permitted to submit a detailed representation to the Land Acquisition Officer furnishing details as to how they are entitled to seek a reference and, in case such an application is made within two weeks from today, the Land Acquisition Officer shall give the petitioners an opportunity of being heard, and pass appropriate orders, on the request for a reference under Section 18 of the Act, in accordance with law within a period of four weeks thereafter. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date:26.04.2010 Note:Furnish copy within one week. bo Usd