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11. The mortality of justice at the hands of law troubles a Judge's conscience and points an angry interrogation at the law reformer."

19. In a judgment of the Supreme Court reported as (2015) 7 SCC 601 (Rajasthan Housing Board vs. New Pink City Nirman Sahkari Samiti Limited and Another) in the matter pertaining to land acquisition, knowledge of the proceedings was held to constitute notice. The relevant extract of the said decision reads as under:-

"16. In the instant case it is apparent that the Housing Society had preferred objections and was aware of the land acquisition process and determination of compensation and has filed objections which stood rejected on 4.9.1982. Thus, the constructive knowledge of the award is fairly attributable to it when it was so passed. Constructive notice in legal fiction signifies that the individual person should know as a reasonable person would have. Even if they have no actual knowledge of it. Constructive notice means a man ought to have known a fact. A person is said to have notice of a fact when he actually knows a fact but for wilful abstension from inquiry or search which he ought to have made, or gross negligence he would have known it. Constructive notice is a notice inferred by law, as distinguished from actual or formal notice; that which is held by law to amount to notice. The concept of constructive notice has been upheld by this Court in Harish Chandra Raj Singh vs. Land Acquisition Officer, AIR 1961 SC 1500.