JUDGMENT :

1. This Writ Petition is filed questioning the award dated 24.07.2012 as arbitrary, illegal and contrary to the provisions of Sections 11-A and 12(2) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. The first petitioner is the owner and possessor of the land admeasuring an extent of Ac.2.56 cents in RS No.115/2, second petitioner is the owner and possessor of the land admeasuring an extent of Ac.2.56 cents in RS No.115/2A and the third petitioner is the owner and possessor of the land admeasuring an extent of 0.50 cents in RS No.115/1B, situated in Badampudi village, Unguturu Mandal, West Godavari district and they are in actual and physical possession of the said lands; a notification under Section 4(1) of the Act was published on 20.01.2009 proposing to acquire the subject lands for distribution as house site pattas to the landless poor and public notice of the said notification was not displayed at any public place; personal notice was not served on the petitioners and urgency clause was not invoked; the third respondent caused enquiry under Section 5-A of the