The Hon'ble Sri Justice C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy Writ Petition No.25452 of 2010 Date: 03-12-2011 Between: Metasun Telecom Pvt. Ltd., rep. by its Director Manda Srinivas and another ..... Petitioners AND The Special Deputy Collector (L.A.) Unit-II ORRP, HUDA, Tarnaka, Hyderabad and another. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: --- Counsel for Respondent No.1: Sri Ravindra Yanamandra, SC for ORR Counsel for respondent No.2: AGP for Land Acquisition The Court made the following : Order: This Writ Petition is ﬁled for the following substantive relief: “to issue a Writ, Order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Certiorari, quashing proceedings dt. 14-12- 2005, under Sec. 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, for acquisition of the petitioners’ lands in Survey Nos. 165, 166 and 168 of Keesara Village and Mandal, R.R. District, for the purpose of creating a junction connecting with Outer Ring Road.” At the hearing, there is no representation for the petitioners. I have heard Sri Ravindra Yanamandra, learned Standing Counsel for Outer Ring Road, appearing for the respondents. The lands of the petitioners, admeasuring Ac.10- 11 cents, Ac.2-00 and Ac.5.08 cents in Survey Nos.165, 166 and 168 respectively, totalling to Ac.17.19 guntas, were notified for acquisition for formation of Outer Ring Road vide Notiﬁcation, dated 14-12-2005, issued under Section 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’). Six years thereafter, the present Writ Petition is filed seeking its quashing. In the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.1, it i s inter alia stated that, following the impugned notiﬁcation, draft declaration under Section 6 of the Act was published in Gazette on 14-12-2006; that after publication of the same in the newspapers and also in the locality as per the procedure prescribed under the Act, award enquiry was held on 29-08-2007 and 28-11-2008; that award was passed on 07-01-2009; that possession of the lands in question was taken over on 05-01-2010; that notices under Section 12 (2) of the Act were issued on 12-04-2010; that the land was handed over to the Engineering Department for execution of road work on 17-04-2010 and; that the contractor has commenced the road work on 26-05-2010. It is further stated that, as there are multiple claims over the property in question, the disputes were referred to the Court of the District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District, which are presently pending. No reply-aﬃdavit is ﬁled controverting the above allegations. As the petitioner failed to question the subsequent proceedings, undertaken by the respondents, culminating in passing of an award and reference of dispute to the civil Court on apportionment of compensation, the prayer for quashing the impugned notiﬁcation, issued under Section 4 (1) of the Act, cannot be allowed at this stage. Therefore, the Writ Petition is dismissed. As a sequel, WPMP.No.32517 of 2010, ﬁled by the petitioners for interim relief, is disposed of as infructuous. ______________________ (C.V.Nagarjuna Reddy, J) 3rd December, 2011 LUR