DEVINDER GUPTA, CJ.

( 1 ) THE respondents owners of the land in question filed Writ Petition No. 7450 of 2002 questioning the action of the Special deputy Collector, Land Acquisition, Steel plant, Visakhapatnam in having issued memo dated 27-3-2002 as illegal and unconstitutional and prayed to quash the same with a consequential direction to issue a fresh notification for acquiring the land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the Act ).

( 2 ) BEFORE we proceed further brief facts leading to the filing of the writ petition may be stated: Invoking urgency provisions, notification-dated 16-1-1981 was issued under Section 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition act seeking to acquire the land in question. Pursuant to invocation of urgency clause, possession was also taken on 29-9-1982. The proceedings to acquire the land were challenged before the court in W. P. No. 9538 of 1982. The court by its judgment-dated 4-12-1985 quashed the notification issued under Section 4 (1) of the Act with liberty reserved to the petitioners-appellants to issue fresh notification within a period of three months. Fresh notification under Section 4 (1) was issued on 1

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