ORDER

An interesting question of law has been raised in this case. Notification under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894) (for short, the Act ) was published in the State Gazette on September 24, 1981 acquiring an extent of 137 acres of land for housing scheme of the appellant. We are concerned with 2 acres 28 gunthas of land belonging to the respondent Nos. 3 to 7 in this appeal. The objections under Section 5-A of the Act were filed by the respondents on November 12, 1981. He appeared through counsel on November 21, 1981 and sought further time to file further objections. The matter was posted for November 25, 1981. He filed a memo stating that the additional objections already filed on November 12, 1981 would be treated as on record and sought time for hearing and accordingly the matter was posted for November 30, 1981 on which date the respondent appeared neither in person nor through counsel. The Land Acquisition Officer, therefore, considered the objections and submitted his report to the Government for consideration by his proceedings dated January 12, 1982. The Government after considering the objections and the report and on rejection the