( 1 ) JUDGMENT of the Bench delivered by the Hon ble Mr. Justice P. A. Choudarythe petitioners are owners of excess vacant land measuring 26, 025. 98 sq. mts. in T. S. No. 15 (part) and situate in Bhaktavarguda, golconda. That piece of land falls under the Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration. Under the provisions of the URBAN LAND (CEILING AND REGULATION) ACT, 1976 such vacant lands are to be identified for purpose of being acquired by the State. The competent authority under the Act had to compute first and notify later the excess vacant land which is so liable to be acquired by the Government. There is a long drawn out procedure prescribed by the Act for the making of such notification. Among those provisions relating to making of such notifications Section 10 is the last and the final provision. It provides for final determination of excess vacant land. Under the said section, the competent authority would publish a notification in the official gazette declaring excess vacant land that would be deemed to have been acquired by the State Government. In this case such a notification was published on 6-4-1983. But under Section 20 (1) (a) the owner of excess vacant land has a right to app

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