THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.24966 of 2011 Dated 03rd December, 2011 Between: Ande Sai Baba alias Sai Babayya …Petitioner And The State of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by the Secretary, Revenue (Land Acquisition) Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri M.Jagannatha Sarma Counsel for respondent Nos.1 to 3: AGP for Land Acquisition Counsel for respondent No.4: Sri S.Surya Prakash Rao The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a mandamus to direct the respondents to forbear from giving eﬀect to award No.7/2010-2011, Rc.B.(L.A.) No.1403/2009, dated 31.08.2010, passed by respondent No.3. The petitioner, who is the owner of the property acquired for establishment of a power project by respondent No.4 sought for invalidation of the award on the ground that no notices under Sections 9(3) and 10 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) were served on the petitioner. In the counter aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.3, it is inter alia stated that the notices under Section 9(3) and 10 of the Act were served on the petitioner on 26.08.2009 informing him that award enquiry will be held on 09.09.2009, besides the petitioner being personally informed through the Village Revenue Oﬃcer about the enquiry and that the petitioner did not attend the award enquiry on 09.09.2009 and produced any record. No reply aﬃdavit is ﬁled controverting the above averments contained in the counter affidavit. In view of the same, the ground on which the petitioner sought invalidation of the award cannot be sustained. It also requires to be noticed that in May George v. Special Tahsildar [1], the Supreme Court held that the provisions of Sections 9 and 10 of the Act are only directory and not mandatory and that non-compliance thereof will not vitiate the award. Even on this ground also, no relief can be granted to the petitioner. For the above-mentioned reasons, the writ petition is dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, interim order, dated 06.09.2011, as extended on 19.09.2011, shall stand vacated and W.P.M.P.No.30700 of 2011 and W.V.M.P.Nos.3931 and 4272 of 2011 are disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 03rd December, 2011 VGB [1] 2010-Scale-6-71