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 21.04.2017 passed in O.P.No.18 of 2006 on the file of the Senior Civil Judge, Mahabubabad, (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as “the Reference Court”).

3. In nut-shell, the facts of the case are that on a requisition made by the Executive Engineer, Hanamkonda, the lands admeasuring Acs.15.28 ½ guntas situated in Seerole Village, Kuravi Mandal, Mahabubabad District, belonging to the respondents-claimants were acquired for the purpose of excavation of minor canals 9-Respondent, 4R, 21R of DBM 48 from K.M. 3.000 to 10.000; that Draft notification under Section 4(1) and that draft declaration under Section 6 of the Act were published in the A.P. Gazette on 19.07.2002 and 20.07.2002,