this Notification has been published in the Government Gazette. It is dated 30-6-1978. The subject area has, therefore, been declared as a slum area. Now, the petitioners do not say in the writ petition that there is any Appeal filed by their predecessor in title and is pending. They have also not filed any Appeal. The reliance that is placed upon the Judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court is clearly misplaced. That Judgment was rendered by the Hon’ble Supreme Court when it was considering a challenge to the constitutional validity. The constitutional validity was in the context of three Notifications. The Hon’ble Supreme Court, in para 1 of the decision reported in AIR 1975 SC 596 { The Government of Mysore and others v. J.V. Bhat, etc. }, has referred to them. The Notifications were issued under the Mysore Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1958, and the declaration was under Section 3 of that Act, and a declaration thereafter under Section 9 and then a Notification under Section 12 by which certain lands were to be acquired under that Act. The provisions of Sections 3, 9, 12 and 15 were challenged as unconstitutional. Bearing in mind the language of Article 19(1)(f) of the Constitution of India, which was then prevailing, the High Court struck down Sections 3 and 9 and Section 12(1)(b) was struck down as violating Article 14 of the Constitution of India. The High Court did not consider it necessary to decide the issue of constitutional validity of Section 15 of that Act. It, however, held that the three
