( 1 ) A notification purporting to be u/s. 4 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1984 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) was issued on 4/05/1982 and was published in the U. P. Gazette on 25th Sept. 1982. By this notification a number of agricultural plots including plot No. 351 (area 1. 53 acres) situated in village Sonakpur, tehsil and district Moradabad were sought to be acquired for the Moradabad Development Authority. The validity of the said notification is being impugned in the present petition by the petitioners who allege themselves to be the owners of plot No. 351.

( 2 ) SHRI R. H. Zaidi has advanced the following submissions in support of this petition : (1) No publication of the notification u/s. 4 took place in the locality, (2) the notice issued u/s. 4 was not served upon the petitioners in conformity with S. 45 of the Act and (3) the publication in the locality having not taken place within 21 days from the date of publication of the notification in the official gazette, the entire proceedings fell through. We shall deal with these contentions in seriatim.

( 3 ) ). Re. 1. In paragraph 16 of the writ petition, which has been sworn on personal knowledge by a pairokar on

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