IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7220 of 2011 Date of decision: 27.04.2011 Gurvir Kaur and another …..Petitioners versus State of Punjab and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.Satinder Khanna, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer that directions be issued to the respondents to release the land owned by the petitioners bearing khasra No.27//10/2 measuring 3 kanal 19 marla. Heard. Above said land was acquired vide notification dated 21.5.21007, issued under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act), for a public purpose i.e. “construction of sewage treatment plant at Nawanshahr’. Thereafter, declaration under Section 6 of the Act was issued and award was also passed regarding the land in question. It is an admitted fact that when an opportunity was granted, the petitioners did not file any objection under Section 5-A of the Act, to oppose the proposed acquisition. This writ petition has also been filed at a belated stage after passed of an award. In view of ratio of judgments of the Civil Writ Petition No.7220 of 2011 Hon’ble Supreme Court in Delhi Administration v. Gurdip Singh Uban and others, AIR 1999 SC 3822 and Swaran Lata etc. v. State of Haryana and others AIR 2010 Supreme Court 1664, this writ petition cannot be entertained. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 27.04.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2