COMMON JUDGMENT

(The judgment of this Court was made by S.M.Subramaniam,J.,) The present Intra-court Appeals under Clause 15 of the letters patent have been instituted by the Chairman and Managing Director, Tamil Nadu Housing Board. The appellant is the second respondent in the writ petition and the requisition body in respect of the lands acquired for developing Housing Scheme.

2.It is not in dispute that the land acquisition proceedings have been initiated to acquire the lands in S.No.2930/1, 2930/2, 2931 and 2932/1 in Pursawalkkam Village, Purasawalkkam – Perambur Taluk, Madras District, measuring an extent of 103 grounds under 4(1) Notification dated 30.10.1985 under 1894 Land Acquisition Act was published in the Tamil Nadu Gazette No.42-C. Consequently, by declaration under Section 6 of the 1894 Act was published in the extraordinary issue of Tamil Nadu Gazatte No.756 dated 22.12.1986.

Award was passed on 22.12.1988 in Award No.2/1988.

3.Pertinently, a writ petition in W.P.No.5640 of 1999 had been instituted chal