( 1 ) THIS Full Bench has been constituted to consider mainly the question whether a fresh notification issued under Sec. 4 (l) of the Land Acquisition Act (hereinafter, referred to as "l. A. Act") can be issued without withdrawing or cancelling the earlier notification which stood vitiated by the failure to publish its substance in the locality within the stipulated time. The learned single Judge allowed the writ petitions holding that the earlier notification under Sec. 4 (1) subsisted notwithstanding such failure and that the fresh notification could only be issued after the withdrawal of the earlier one under Sec. 48 of the l. A. Act. When the writ appeals filed against the common judgment came up for hearing before the Division Bench consisting of Ramanujulu Naidu and Ranga reddy, JJ. , the learned Judges, after having referred to certain observations in two judgments of the Supreme Court felt that in view of the importance of the question, the cases are fit to be decided by a Full Bench. Accordingly, the four writ appeals have been referred to the Full Bench. Two other connected writ petitions have also been tagged on to the writ appeals. Thus in all, six cases are before the

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