Section 6 of Land Acquisition Act, 1953
After section 15 of the said Act, the following section shall be
inserted, namely "15A. Power of State Government to call for proceedings and pass orders thereon.- The State Government may, at any time before an award is made by the Collector under section 11, call for and examine the record of any order passed by the Collector or of any inquiry or proceedings of the Collector, for the purpose of satisfying itself as to the legality or propriety of any order passed and as to the regularity of such proceedings. If, in any case, it shall appear to the State Government that any order or proceedings so called for should be modified, annulled, or reversed, it may pass such order thereon as it deems fit. Power of State Government.- Section 15-A of the Act clearly relates to the power of the Government to refuse any order or proceeding; it
does not expressly enjoin that the objector should be heard
personally. Hence, there is no violation of any principle of natural justice in not giving an opportunity of hearing to the objector by the Government.- Madaiah Seddalingaiah v. State of Mysore, AIR 1972 Mys. 9 : 1971(2) Mys. L. J. 312