IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5223 of 1990 Date of decision: 30.03.2011 Ambrish Chander Kudesia and others …..Petitioners versus State of Haryana ……Respondent CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.A.C.Jain, Advocate for the petitioners Mr.Kamal Sehgal, Addl. A.G. Haryana Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This order will dispose of CWP Nos.4470, 5223, 5312 and 5953 of 1990, involving similar question of law and facts. For facility of reference, facts are being taken from CWP No.5223 of 1990. Petitioners have filed this writ petition with a prayer to quash a notification, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) on 21.4.1987, proposing to acquire a vast tract of land, including 250.45 acres of land in village Tejli, for a public purpose, namely, ‘for development and utilization of land as residential area’. Further challenge has been laid to a declaration, issued under Section 6 of the Act on 20.4.1988, finally ordering acquisition of 247.34 acres of land in above said village besides land falling in village Gari Mundon. Civil Writ Petition No.5223 of 1990 At the time of arguments, counsel for the petitioners states that the above said notification came up for consideration before a Single Bench of this Court in CWP No.3269 of 1990 titled as Sukhdev Sharma v. State of Haryana, 1993 (1) PLR 107 and vide order dated 29.9.1992, the writ petition was allowed, acquisition under challenge in this case, vide notifications mentioned above, was quashed. Mr.Sehgal has failed to show that the statement made is not correct. Accordingly, under the circumstances, these writ petitions are also disposed of in the same terms as in the case of Sukhdev Sharma (supra), the notifications impugned in these cases are quashed, however, liberty shall remain with the government authorities to re-acquire the land, if need be, as per law. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 30.03.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2