IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.22710 of 2010 Date of decision: 22.12.2010 Rama Kant …..Petitioner versus State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Mr.Karan Singh, Advocate for Mr.Ajit Malik, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to lay challenge to a notification dated 23.8.2007, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), proposing to acquire a vast track of land, including about 1½ kanal land of the petitioner. Further challenge has been made to a declaration, issued on 21.8.2008 under Section 6 of the Act. Still further, challenge has been laid to an award passed on 19.8.2010. This writ petition, having been filed after passing of an award, possibly cannot be entertained in view of ratio of judgments of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Industrial Development and Investment Company (P) Limited, (1996) 11 SCC 501; Municipal Council, Ahmednagar v. Shah Hyder Beig, (2000) 2 SCC 48; C. Padma v. Deputy Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, (1997) 2 CWP No.22710 of 2010 SCC 627; Star Wire (India) Ltd. v. State of Haryana, (1996) 11 SCC 698; and M/s Swaika Properties Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Rajasthan, JT 2008 (2) SC 280 Swaran Lata etc. v. State of Haryana and others AIR 2010 Supreme Court 1664. In this case, declaration was issued in the month of August 2008. The petitioner continued to wait and did nothing to lay any challenge to the acquisition of his land/ building and woke up only when award was passed on 19.8.2010. Be that as it may, it is apparent from the records that land was proposed to be acquired to develop it for residential and commercial purposes. The petitioner is running a wood cutting machine in his building. Possibly, that cannot be allowed to exist in a residential area. No case is made out for interference. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 22.12.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2