IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Civil Writ Petition No.17802 of 2009 Date of Decision:-November 20,2009 Santosh and another ...Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR Present:- Dr.Pawan Kumar Aryan, Advocate for the petitioners. Mehinder Singh Sullar, J. Assailing the acquisition proceedings, the petitioners have directed the present writ petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, for quashing the impugned notification dated 2.5.2001 (Annexure P2), notification dated 10.5.2001 (Annexure P4) under section 4, notification dated 30.4.2002 (Annexure P3) and notification dated 11.5.2001 under section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter to be referred as “the Act”). The Govt. of Haryana has acquired the land in question of the petitioners along with other land for public purpose, namely, for development and utilization of land as residential and commercial for Sector 15, Jagadhri in the area of village Garhi Mundon, HB No.408, Tejli, HB No.409, District Yamunanagar under the Haryana Urban Development Authority Act, 1977 vide notifications (Annexures P2 to P5). The declaration was made under the provisions of section 6 of the Act vide notification (Annexure P3). It has been specifically mentioned in para 9 of the writ petition that the respondents made award without giving notice to the petitioners mandatory under section 9 of the Act. The award was pronounced for their land on 27.4.2004 comprising in total only 76, 43, (67, 91 and 8.52) acres of land. The land measuring 8.39 acres was left out of the award, after declaring it under section 6 of the Act. Thus, the petitioners have challenged the impugned notifications (Annexures P2 to P5) being arbitrary and illegal. 2. The bare perusal of the record would reveal that having completed all the codal formalities, the Land Acquisition Collector (hereinafter to be referred as “the Collector”) has already announced the award on 27.4.2004 in respect of notifications sought to be challenged through the instant writ petition. The award has been passed by the Collector and filed in his office, which is final and conclusive evidence between the Collector and the persons interested in regard to the true area and value of the land as contemplated under section 12 of the Act. Admittedly, the present petition was filed subsequent to the announcement of the award by the Collector. Once the award has been passed by the Collector, then the present writ petition is clearly not maintainable, so as to impugning the initial action of the respondents in acquiring the land in question in view of the law laid down by Hon’ble Apex Court in Star Wire (India) Ltd. v. State of Haryana and others, (1996) 11 Supreme Court Cases 698, Swaika Properties (P) Ltd. and another v. State of Rajasthan and others (2008) 4 Supreme Court Cases 695 and this Court in Kamlesh Chander and others v. State of Haryana and others, 2008 (4) RCR (Civil) 535. 3. For the reasons mentioned above, we are satisfied that the instant writ petition filed, so as to challenge the notifications whereby the land of the petitioners was acquired after passing the award, is not maintainable, in the obtaining circumstances of the case. Accordingly, the present writ petition is hereby dismissed as such. (Mehinder Singh Sullar) Judge (Satish Kumar Mittal) 20.11.2009 Judge AS