O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) PURSUANT to a notification issued under Section 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act a vast extent of land was acquired by the Government in connection with establishing the Agricultural University at Rajendranagar. The Land Acquisition Officer made his awards. The erstwhile owners of the land who were not satisfied with the compensation awarded by the Land Acquisition Officer sought references to the court under Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act. The Court made awards in the several references enhancing the compensation. The Government did not prefer appeals against the awards of the lower Court, but the Agricultural University for whose benefit the land was acquired has preferred these appeals after obtaining leave to appeal from this Court. Leave was granted ex parte, without notice to the claimants. When the appeals came up before me the claimants raised a preliminary objection regarding the maintainability of the appeals. Though leave was granted by this Court it was very rightly conceded by Sri Babulu Reddy that it was open to the Respondents to raise the preliminary objection since leave had been granted ex parte.

( 2 ) IN order to appreciate th

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