Jawahar Lal Gupta, J.

1. This order will dispose of CWP Nos. 12471 and 12564 of 1989. The primary grievance of the petitioners in these two cases is that the compensation awarded by the Land Acquisition Collector was neither paid nor deposited and as such the entire acquisition proceedings have lapsed. A few facts as emanating from CWP No. 12471 of 1989 may be noticed.

2. The petitioner is a partnership firm having a stone crusher in the revenue estate of village Maheshpur (Panchkula), district Ambala. It is averred that the petitioner has been carrying on the business of stone crushing since the year 1970 on a plot of land measuring 8 Kanal and 2 marlas It is further averred that even though this land had been taken initially on lease, the petitioner had actually purchased it on May 8, 1974. On June 6, 1983, the State of Haryana issued a notification under Section 4 proposing to acquire , 00,71 acres of land in village Maheshpur for the public purpose of developing a residential area. A copy of this notification has been produced on record as Annexure P-1. On June 27, 1984, the notification under Section 6 declaring that an area measuring 194.92 acres of land was required