P. S. MISHRA, C. J.

( 1 ) THE Commissioner, municipal Corporation of Hyderabad and additional Special Deputy Collector, Land acquisition Unit II, Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, has preferred the instant appeals under Clause 15 of the Letters patent of the Court against the judgment of the learned single Judge in a proceeding under Article 226 of the Constitution of india. Petitioner-respondents have stated that they came to know in the year 1985 that a notification under Section3 (l) of the Andhra pradesh (Andhra Area) Slum Improvement (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1956 (for short the Act") had been published in A. P. Gazette dated 17-2-1983 declaring an area of 9,000 square yards of ramaswamy Compound as slum area. They filed before this Court w. P. No. 8359 of 1985 challenging the said notification. The Court dismissed the writ petition on 6-8-1985 observing that the petitioner-respondents could challenge the notification after they received notice under section 3 (2) of the Act. They (petitioner- respondents), however, were served with the notice under Section 3 (2) of the Act in august, 1987. They appeared and they filed theirobjections both against the acquisition as well

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