JUDGMENT - Mrs. SUJATA MANOHAR, J.:---This writ petition and a number of other petitions, which are before us, are from persons in the benefited zone of the Warana Irrigation Project whose lands are sought to b acquired for the rehabilitation of persons displaced by the project. In all these writ petitions, the virus of Maharashtra Resettlement of Project Displaced Persons (Amendment and Validation ) Act, 1985 is challenged. A number of writ petition which challenged the virus of the said Amendment and Validation Act, 1985 on the same grounds as are urged in these petitions were considered by a Division Bench of this Court in the case of (Dhulgonda Dada Patil v. Special Land Acquisition Officer No. 15)1, reported in A.I.R. 1989 Bom. 286. The Division Bench has upheld the validity of the said Amendment and Validation Act of 1985. The Division Bench has observed in this judgment in para 10 that under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Amendment and Validation Act, the final declarations made under section 15(3) of the principal Act before the commencement of the said Amendment and Validation Act, are validated and cured. The said Validation covers cases where declarations under sect

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