IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.1341 of 2011 Date of decision: 24.1.2011 Bir Pal and others …..Petitioners versus State of Haryana and others ……Respondents CORAM: Hon’ble Mr.Justice Jasbir Singh Hon’ble Mr.Justice Rakesh Kumar Garg Present: Mr.C.B.Goel, Advocate for the petitioners Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) This writ petition has been filed with a prayer to quash a notification dated 9.12.2010, proposing to acquire about 4 acres of land, for a public purpose, namely, for the development and utilization of land for the alignment of bye-pass road, in Faridabad. Further challenge has been made to the declaration, issued on 15.12.2010. It is apparent from the record that the above said two notifications were issued by invoking the provisions of Section 17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) to acquire four small left out pockets, falling in the road alignment. In these notifications, it is mentioned that due to the non-acquisition of the above said four pockets of land, construction work of the bye-pass road has been held up, otherwise, rest of the work upto 75% has been completed. Civil Writ Petition No.1341 of 2011 Under the circumstances, we feel that the acquisition is perfectly justified. It appears that four pieces of the land which is subject matter of these notifications are the left out pockets falling in the road alignment, when rest of the land was acquired for construction of a bye-pass road. It is contention of counsel for the petitioners that a vacant parcel of land, adjoining to their land, owned by the respondents, is available and the same can safely be exchanged with their land. To say so, reference has been made to the pending representations. Be that as it may, the petitioners may continue to press for the said relief, however, so far as notifications are concerned, no case is made out for interference. Disposed of. (Jasbir Singh) Judge 24.01.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) gk Judge 2