HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.157 of 2008 29.01.2008 Between: V.Muralidhar Rao and others … Petitioners AND The District Collector, Kurnool and another … Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.157 of 2008 ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to set aside notification, dated 10.10.2007 issued under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) to the extent it proposed to acquire the lands of the petitioners comprised in Survey No.369/2B of Thimmapur Village, Mahanandi Mandal, Kurnool District. One of the main grounds raised to question the validity of the impugned notification is that the agricultural lands of the petitioners are not converted for being used for non-agricultural purpose. This issue is no longer res integra in view of judgment, dated 28.12.2007 passed by this Court in Writ Petition Nos.18881 of 2006 and batch. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that the impugned notification was published only in one newspaper and, therefore, the respondents failed to follow the procedure prescribed under Section 4(1) of the Act, which mandates that it should be published in two daily newspapers, of which one is in the local language. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition submitted that the notification was published in two newspapers namely, Vaartha and Mahanagar. Having regard to the statement of the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Land Acquisition, learned counsel for the petitioners fairly stated that the petitioners may be permitted to file their objections before respondent No.2 and the latter may be permitted to hold enquiry by giving an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioners. In view of the facts mentioned above, the writ petition is disposed of. The petitioners are permitted to file their objections within a period of three weeks from today and respondent No.2 is directed to dispose of the said objections after giving an opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioners. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 29th JANUARY, 2008. Note: furnish c.c. in one week. B/o kvni