JUDGMENT :

1. Leave granted. These appeals have been filed for setting aside judgment dated 24.11.2011 of the Division Bench of the Patna High Court whereby the Letters Patent Appeals filed by the Appellants were dismissed and the order passed by the learned Single Judge negating challenge to the acquisition of their land was upheld.

2. The Superintendent of Police, Bagaha sent requisition dated 14.3.2000 to District Magistrate, West Champaran, Bettiah for making available suitable land for construction of police lines. For the next four years, different officers of the State Government exchanged correspondence for the acquisition of land of different measurements. On 24.2.2004, Superintendent of Police, Bagaha sent a requisition to District Magistrate, West Champaran for the acquisition of 45.05 acres of land of villages Pokharbinda and Domwalia on urgent basis. He also suggested that inquiry under Section 5A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, 'the Act') may be dispensed with by invoking Section 17. After about three years, the State Government issued notification dated 9.2.2007 under Section 4 read with Section 17(4) of the Act for the acquisition of land and also declar