JUDGMENT

O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.:—We are dismissing both the Special Leave Petitions. But we propose to give our reasons for doing so, which we do not generally do, as our attention has been invited to some judgments of High Courts which we consider have been wrongly decided, proceeding as they do on a misunderstanding of some observations of this Court. A combined notification under Sections 4 and 17 and a declaration under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act were published in the Delhi Extraordinary Gazette on 18-6-1994 in regard to the acquisition of certain lands in the village Bijwasan for the purpose of construction of a New Transmitting Station for the Delhi Airport. Public Notice of the substance of the notification under Sec. 4 was alleged to have been given in the locality on 17-7-1994. It was also alleged that the matter was under correspondence between various departments of the Government, for nearly eight years before the notification and the declaration were published in the Gazette. A writ petition was filed in the Delhi High Court impugning the notification and the declaration on two grounds. The first was that the delay of 29 days in giving public notice of the s