IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5888 of 2011 Date of decision: 27.04.2011 Raj Pal and others …..Petitioners versus The State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.Sushil Jain, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that a notification, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) on 25.4.2008, proposing to acquire 3510 acres 5 kanal 1 marla of land for a public purpose i.e. ‘for setting up a Ch. Devi Lal Industrial Model Township, planed as an integrated complex’. Further challenge is to a declaration, which was issued on 22.4.2009, ordering acquisition of 3325 acres 3 kanal 16 marla of land for the above said purpose. As per information supplied, an award has already been passed. To claim relief in this case, the petitioners have agitated their right to save their residential houses allegedly constructed in land falling in khasra No.49//6/2 measuring 2 kanal 10 marla. It is case of the petitioners Civil Writ Petition No.5888 of 2011 that they had constructed five residential houses in the above said land. To prove that fact, reference was made to the five copies of the ratio cards, which have been brought on record as Annexures P6 to P10. Perusal of the documents mentioned above clearly indicates that the ration cards were issued for the house Nos.133, 134, 135, 137 and 138. To verify the factum of construction, we made a reference to the site plan (P11), perusal thereof indicates that construction shown is only with regard to two small rooms and a tin shed and the land is shown surrounded by a boundary wall. It appears that houses of the petitioners are situated in village Mokalwas and not in the property, in dispute. Photographs of the construction have not been brought on record. Neither in the objections, filed under Section 5-A of the Act nor in this writ petition, extent/ measurement of construction has been shown. It appears that an attempt has been made to mislead the Court. Furthermore, an award has already been passed, the writ has been filed at a belated stage. In view of ratio of the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Swaran Lata etc. v. State of Haryana and others AIR 2010 Supreme Court 1664, this writ petition cannot be entertained at this stage. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 27.04.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2