Judgement

HIDAYATULLAH, C.J.I. : These appeals by special leave are against a common judgment of the High Court of Mysore, March 3, 1961, allowing a batch of writ petitions. By the order now impugned, the High Court had quashed two notifications issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Mysore Land Acquisition Act,1894 and published in the Mysore Gazette dated May 7, 1959 and October 15, 1959, respectively, and restrained the State Government from acquiring the land affected by the said notifications. The State now appeals.

2. The petitions were directed against the State of Mysore and the Special Land Acquisition Officer, City Improvement Trust Board, Bangalore. In some of the petitions there were other respondents either with or without the Special Land Acquisition Officer. Nothing, however, turns upon the array of the respondents.

3. In Mysore there are two Acts bearing on acquisition of private land for public purposes. The first is the Mysore land Acquisition Act which follows the same scheme as the Land Acquisition Act in force in India. The other is the City of Bangalore Improvement Act, 1945. The latter Act constitutes a Board of Trustees charged with the execution of the Act and i