JUDGEMENT
K.S.Bakthavatsalam, j. -
(1.)these writ petitions are preferred against certain acquisition
of lands made under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short
"the l.a. act") for the Karnataka state judicial department
employees' house building co-operative society limited, high
court building, Bangalore. The first two of these writ petitions
are filed styling to be public interest litigation by two practising
advocates of this court and the third one is filed by an owner of
a piece of land involved in the acquisition.
(2.)the facts leading to the filing of these writ petitions can'be
stated thus the Karnataka state judicial department employees' house
building co-operative society (in short "the society") was
registered under the Karnataka Co-Operative Societies Act, 1959
on 11-8-1983. It seems the members of the society includes the
members of the judicial department, members of the
subordinate judiciary and also certain sitting, transferred and
retired judges of this court. It seems the society originally made
an agreement with individual owners for purchase of land, but
ultimately it decided to request the government to initiate
proceedings for acquiring the lands under the land acquisition
act. Notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act
was published in the gazettee on 18-2-1988. It was published in
the local newspapers "sanjevani" and "samyukta karnataka" on
12-2-1988 and 13-2-1988. Public notice under Section 4(2) was
published in the village chavadi on 14-3-1988. Declaration
under Section 6 was published in the gazettee on 27-2-1989.
declaration under Section 6 was published in the local
news-papers "sanjevani" and "prajavani" was on 25-2-1989 and
1-3-1989. Publication in the village chavadi was done on
15-3-1989. Award came to be passed on 13-3-1991. Under this
acquisition an extent of 159 acres 261/4 guntas of land in the
village allalasandra were acquired.
(3.)subsequent to the formation of the society it seems the
society entered into an agreement with one M/s. Devatha
builders on 12-11-1986 long before the notification under section
4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act was published in the gazettee.
it is also seen from the records that the government has
approved the acquisition of the lands for the society on
30-8-1985. The Bangalore development authority (in short
"bda") has approved the layout on 28-11-1992 and it seems the
allotment of sites has been made by the society (1700 sites) on
4-1-1993. At this stage these writ petitions came to be filed
before this court.
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