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72. Mr. Rao, however, sought to rely on Tukaram Kana Joshi (supra), Ramji Veerji Patil (supra), Chairman, Indore Vikas Pradhikaran (supra), Bhusawal Municipal Council (supra), Wazirpur Bartan Nirmata Sangh (supra) and Surjeet Singh (supra), in his attempt to convince me to depart from Ramanand (supra). One may, therefore, examine the merits of the reliance, by Mr. Rao, on these authorities, as well.

73. Tukaram Kana Joshi (supra) involved a situation in which a large chunk of land, owned by their predecessors-in-interest of the appellants before the Supreme Court was notified under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, on 6th June, 1964, for the establishment of a project for industrial development. No proceedings, however, were taken up thereafter, as a result of which the acquisition proceedings lapsed. Despite this, the officers of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation ("MIDC"), taking advantage of the illiteracy of their predecessors-in-interest of the appellants before the Supreme Court, persuaded them to hand over possession of the land, pursuant to which actual physical possession of the land was taken over by the State authorities and handed over to MIDC in 1964 itself. In 1981, however, the MIDC realised that grave injustice has been done to the appellants before the Supreme Court. This persuaded the MIDC to issue a fresh Notification, under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, on 14th May, 1981, in respect of the same land. These proceedings, too, lapsed, on account of non-issuance of any declaration under Section 6 of the said Act.