This Writ Petition is filed under Articles 226 & 227 of the Constitution of India with a prayer to quash the preliminary notification dated 29.8.2006 and the final notification dated 6.3.2008 issued under Section 4(1) and 6(1) of the L.A. Act vide Annexures-C and E respectively by the respondents insofar as it relates to acquisition of lands of petitioners, as the same is illegal and unsustainable in law.

Writ petitioners being seven in number claim to be owners of small extends of agricultural lands and that they belong to weaker sections of the society and it is their version that they have no other means of livelihood except the avocation of tilling their lands, growing crops for their sustenance, etc.

2. Petitioners claim that in respect of such lands and other lands the Government of Karnataka, it appears, had caused issue of a preliminary notification bearing No.Ka.Gru.Mum.Bhu.Swa.V.65/2006-07 dated 29.08.2006 under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the LA Act’) which was published in the Karnataka Gazette dated 14.9.2006 copy produced as Annexure-A to the petition. On a perusal of the records placed before the Court by the