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SURESHWAR THAKUR, KIRTI SINGH
Arun Kumar Gupta – Appellant
Versus
Karnal Motors Pvt. Ltd. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Sureshwar Thakur, J.
The instant appeal has been directed against the order dated 3.9.2024, as passed by the learned Contempt Bench of this Court in COCP No. 3034 of 2024.
Brief facts of the case.
2. A notification under Section 4 of the LAND ACQUISITION ACT , 1894 (for short ‘the Act of 1894’) became issued on 24.3.1992, which became published, which became succeeded by a declaration made on 23.3.1993 under Section 6 of the Act of 1894. In pursuance thereto, an award was made on 29.12.2004 (Annexure P-7). The said notifications were made for acquiring the land for public purpose i.e. for the development and utilization of land as commercial area for Sector-2, Part- II, Kurukshetra.
3. Being aggrieved from the issuance of said notifications, one Chander Pal along with other landowners instituted a writ petition before this Court bearing CWP No. 3859 of 1995 titled as Chander Pal and others versus State of Haryana and others, before this Court. On the said petition, this Court on 15.3.1995, had passed the following order:-
Dispossession stayed till further orders”
4. In pursuance to the above notifications, award No. 9 was made on 22.3.1995. Pu
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