By the Court.—The petitioners are original tenure holders, purchasers, and Societies recorded as owners in revenue records of the land in village Shahberi, Pargana Dadri, District Gautam Budh Nagar. By these writ petitions, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, they have challenged the notification dated 10.6.2009 under Section 4 (1), applying Section 17 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) proposing to acquire a total area of about 156.903 hectares of land in the village Shahberi, Pargana Dadri, District Gautam Budh Nagar, for public purpose namely for the ‘Planned Industrial Development’ in Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNOIDA), District Gautam Budh Nagar, recording the opinion of the Governor, that the provisions of sub Section (1) of Section 17, of the Act are applicable to the said land inasmuch as the land is urgently required for the construction in Greater NOIDA in District Gautam Budh Nagar through GNOIDA, and in order to eliminate the delay likely to be caused by an enquiry under Section 5-A of the Act, the Governor is further pleased to direct under sub Section (4) of Section 17 of the Act, that the provisions of S