IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.20851 of 2010 Date of decision: 23.11.2010 Ranjit Yadav …..Petitioner versus The State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Augustine George Masih Present: Mr.Amit Jain, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to quash a notification dated 2.6.2009 (P5), issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), proposing to acquire a vast track of land, including a small piece of land of the petitioner. Further challenge is made to a declaration issued under Section 6 of the Act on 31.5.2010 (P14). It is clear from the records that the last publication for notification under Section 4 of the Act was made on 9.6.2009. As per provisions of the Act, 30 days time was granted to the land owners to object to the proposed acquisition, which expired on 8.7.2009. The petitioner failed to file any objection. It appears that he woke up from slumber and filed the so called objections in the month of February 2010. By that time, process of disposal of the objections filed by the land owners was already over. Civil Writ Petition No.20851 of 2010 In view of facts mentioned above and in terms of ratio of judgments of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Star Wire (India) Ltd. v. State of Haryana, (1996) 11 SCC 698; Municipal Council Ahmednagar v. Shah Hyder Beig, (2000) 2 SCC 48; C. Padma v. Dy. Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, (1997) 2 SCC 627; and M/s Swaika Properties Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Rajasthan, JT 2008 (2) SC 280, this writ petition is not maintainable. Contention of counsel for the petitioner that to file objection, the petitioner had engaged a counsel, who drafted the objection application on 7.7.2009, however failed to file the same in time before the Land Acquisition Collector, is liable to be rejected. Who was that counsel, when he was engaged, when brief was taken back from him and through which counsel objections were filed thereafter, no detail has been given in this writ petition. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 23.11.2010 (Augustine George Masih) gk Judge 2