JUDGMENT

Vipin Sanghi, J. (Oral)--The petitioner has preferred the present writ petition to seek writ to a quash and set aside the award No. 05/2013-14 dated 27.12.2013 inasmuch, as, the Land Acquisition Collector (LAC) has fixed the market value of the land of the petitioner at the minimum rate fixed by the Government for agricultural land, i.e. at the rate of Rs.53 lacs per acre. The petitioner seeks a direction to the respondent to refix the market value of the land of the petitioner while taking into consideration that it is urbanised land, and land use is non-agricultural/urban/residential, after giving the opportunity to the petitioner to file his claim for fixing market value, and after granting an opportunity of hearing.

2. The background facts of the case are that the land in question was initially notified under Section 4 of the LAND ACQUISITION ACT , 1894 on 13.11.1959. After the said notification, the petitioner purchased the land on 07.06.1960 in an auction. On 23.05.1963, the Delhi Municipal Corporation - with prior sanction of the Government of India, issued a notification under Section 507 of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, whereby, Mehrauli - where the