Judgment

DUTT, J. :- In these appeals and writ petitions, the appellants and the petitioners have challenged the validity of the acquisition of their land by the State of Haryana under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, hereinafter referred to as the Act, for a public purpose, namely, for the development and utilisation of land for industrial purpose at Gurgaon under the Haryana Urban Development Authority Act, 1977 by the Haryana Urban Development Authority (for short HUDA). Although, both in the appeals and in the writ petitions the validity of acquisition has been challenged, we propose to deal with the appeals first.

2. The appeals are directed against the judgments of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissing the writ petitions of the appellants questioning the validity of the acquisition of their land and praying for the quashing of such acquisition.

3. The first ground of attack to the acquisition, as urged by Mr. Lalit, the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants in Civil Appeal No. 1193 of 1984, is the non-publication of the substance of the notification under Section 4(1) of the Act in the locality of the land sought to be acquired. It is true that Section 4(1)