Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4(1), 17(4) -- Delay of 10 days in publication of substance of notification in locality - Plea that since applicability of Section S-A dispensed with under Section 17(4) unnecessary that interested parties informed of requisite information of acquisition proceedings immediately as landholders not entitled to file objections under Section..........
Punjab Town Improvement Trust Act, 1922, Section 44A - - True interpretation and import - Section 44-A inflexibly provides period of 5 years for completion and accomplishment of Scheme from date of its notification under Section 42 unless duly extended by State Government under Proviso to Section 44-A - Legislature fixed two clear cut termini : (i) with regard to sanction..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4(1) -- Publication in Official Gazette - Sine qua non of notification envisaged under Section 4 - Publication of notification in Official Gazette must precede public notice of substance thereof at convenient places in the locality - Prior public notice in the locality - Cannot validly precede publication of notification in Official..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4(1) -- Word "notification", its precise connotation - Notification is formal declaration, proclamation and publication of order in manner prescribed - Word "notification" implies widest publication to the people generally - Has become synonym with the same being published in Official Gazette or authorised media or in any manner..........
Punjab Town Improvement Trust Act, 1922, Section 36, 42, 38 - - Determination of publication date under Section 36 for counting period of 3 years for Notification under Section 42 - Date of first publication under Section 36 relevant and not date of last publication under Section 36 - Sub-section (2) of Section 36 makes it incumbent on Trust that Scheme should be published..........
Punjab Town Improvement Trust Act, 1922, Section 36, 42 -- Challenge to Development and Expansion Scheme - Notices under Section 36 issued in 1971 and Notification under Section 42 issued in 1972 - Non-publication of notices under Section 36 in Official Gazette - Contention that publication of notice under Section 36 in Official Gazette sine qua non of proceedings and..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4 -- Delay between dates of publication of Notification in Official Gazette and alleged publication of its substance in locality concerned - No explanation - Acquisition proceedings rendered void...........
Administration of Evacuee Property Act, 1950, Section 7, 7A, 8, 28, 46 -- No proceedings taken u/S.7 to declare property to be evacuee property, no notification u/S.7(3) published in Official Gazette declaring property as evacuee property and no proceedings initiated u/S.7 pending on 07.05.1955, therefore no question of saving those proceedings under Proviso to S.7A -..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4 -- Substance of notification published in locality prior to publication of notification in Official Gazette - Not valid compliance with S.4 - Order passed by Government unless it appears in Official Gazette - Cannot be described as notification - Only after publication of notification in Official Gazette that citizens come to know that..........
Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Section 4, 5A -- Prior publication of substance of notification in the locality to its publication in Official Gazette - Neither violates provisions of S.4(1) nor in any way prejudicial to rights of landowners u/S.5A - Nothing in S.4(1) which would indicate that publication of substance of notification in the locality could only be made after..........
