THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.11953 of 2007 Dated 11th July, 2011 Between: Chinnam Veera Raghavamma and others …Petitioners And The District Collector, West Godavari District at Eluru and others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri K.Venkatesh Counsel for respondents: GP for Land Acquisition The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to set aside notification, dated 07.05.2006, issued under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’) and the consequential order, dated 06.03.2007, of respondent No.1, as illegal and unenforceable. At the hearing, the learned Government Pleader for Land Acquisition, on written instructions from respondent No.2, submitted that the entire land, which was notified for acquisition, is in possession of the petitioners and that no award has been passed so far. The learned Government Pleader therefore conceded that since the award was not passed within two years of publication of the declaration under Section 6 of the Act as required under Section 11-A of the Act and in the absence of any interim order granted by this Court, the land acquisition proceedings have lapsed. Having regard to this submission of the learned Government Pleader, the writ petition is allowed by declaring that the impugned notification, dated 07.05.2006, issued under Section 4(1) of the Act and the consequential declaration issued under Section 6 of the Act have lost their validity and the entire land acquisition proceedings have lapsed. This order, however, does not preclude the respondents from initiating fresh acquisition proceedings, if they still find that the lands in question are needed for a public purpose. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.14855 of 2007 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 11th July, 2011 VGB