HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY

JUDGMENT

(per Hon’ble Sri Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty)

Heard learned Assistant Government Pleader for Appeals appearing for the appellant-Land Acquisition Officer and Sri Ajay Kumar Madisetty, learned counsel for the respondents-

claimants.

2. This Appeal, under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, (for brevity ‘the Act’), is filed by the Land Acquisition Officer aggrieved by the order and decree dated 03.10.2017 passed in L.A.O.P.No.794 of 2000 on the file of the II Additional District Judge, Warangal, (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as “the Reference Court”).

3. In nut-shell, the facts of the case are that lands totally admeasuring Acs.43.00 guntas situated in different Survey numbers of Tallasankeesa and Upparigudem Villages, Kuravi Mandal, Warangal District, belonging to the respondents-claimants were acquired for the purpose of excavation of canal 4R-21R of DBM-48 from KM 5-000 to 9-000; that Draft notification under Section 4(1) and draft declaration under Section 6 of the Act were published in the A.P. Gazette on 30.07.1998 and 31.07.1998, respectively; that after foll