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 Sunil B.Ganu, learned senior counsel appearing for Sri Pavuluri Sreenivasulu, learned counsel for the respondents/claimants.

2. This appeal, under Section 54 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, (for short ‘the Act’) is filed by the Land Acquisition Officer aggrieved by the order and decree dated 11.08.2010 passed in LAOP.No.36 of 2002 on the file of the I Senior Civil Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to as “the Reference Court’).

3. In nut-shell, the facts of the case are that on a requisition made by the Project Director, MRTS and Additonal Commissioner (T & T) MCH, lands admeasuring Ac.0.35 guntas, equivalent to 4,235 square yards, in Sy.Nos.43, 44 and 54 of Fatehnagar Village, Balanagar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, which includes the lands belonging to the claimants, were acquired for the purpose of development of Railway Station under MRTS Project; that draft notification under Section 4(1)