Judgment

DESAI, J.:- Respondent, Raja Ram Jaiswal moved Civil Miscellaneous Writ Petition No. 3174 of 1975 under Art. 226 of the Constitution in the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad questioning the validity of the Notification dated February 6, 1975 issued under Sec. 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act (Act for short) as also a notice dated March 6, 1975 served upon him pursuant to the aforementioned notification The impugned notification was published in the U. P. Government Gazette dated February 15, 1975. By this impugned notification, land bearing Plot No. 62 approximately admeasuring 8265 sq. yds. was sought to be acquired as being needed for a public purpose namely for extension of Hindi Sangrahalaya of the Hindi Sahitya Sammellan Prayag. A substance of this notification was published in the locality where the land sought to be acquired is situate. On March. 22, 1975, a corrigendum dated March 13, 1.975 was published by which the impugned notification dated February 15, 1975 was to stand corrected by reading Plot No 26 instead of 62 and the area sought to be acquired to be read as 2865 sq. yds. instead of 8265 sq. yds. After the publication of the corrigendum the petitioner