JUDGMENT

UNTWALIA, J.:— In or about the year 1964 or 1965 certain lands situated in the city of Surat were sought to be acquired by the Government of Gujarat for the purposes and the benefit of the employees under the Employees State Insurance Scheme. Several notifications under S. 4 of the Land acquisition Act, 1894 - hereinafter referred to as the Act. were issued. Objections under S. 5-A of the Act were filed in relation to several of the proposed acquisitions. They were heard by officers especially appointed as Collectors by the State government in accordance with section 3 (c) and reports were submitted by them to the State Government. After considering the reports, the State Government issued notifications under S. 6 of the Act. Several Writ Petitions were filed in the High Court of Gujarat challenging the proposed acquisitions and the notifications under Sections 4 and 6, on various grounds. The grounds of attack were mostly common but in some of the cases the acquisitions were assailed on some special grounds also. The High Court dismissed the writ petitions by a common judgment including the two with which we are concerned in these two appeals. Special Civil Application No