As per the above provision, any person, not satisfied with the quantum of compensation awarded by the Land Acquisition Officer can make an application for reference of his claim for enhancement to a competent Civil Court. It is also to be noted that as per 18 (2) of the Act, such application shall be made within a period of six weeks from the date of the Award, if the person making such application was present during the Award proceedings and in other cases, such application should be made within six weeks from the date of receipt of the Notice under Section 12 (2) of the Act. In the instant case, the Land Acquisition Officer passed the Award on 20.04.2007 and a perusal of the copy of the Award clearly and categorically shows that the petitioner herein was not present during the course of Award enquiry. As such, the petitioner herein is entitled to make application under Section 18 (2) of the Act within two months from the date of receipt of Notice under Section 12 (2) of the Act. It is the categoric contention of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the respondent authorities did not issue 12(2) Notice to the petitioner herein and as such, the respondents are not justified in rejecting the application of the petitioner dated 29.02.2008. On the direction of this Court, record pertaining to the present matter has been placed before this Court by the learned Government Pleader. A perusal of the record shows that the petitioner herein submitted her application under Section 18 of the Act on 19.02.2008 and the record further discloses that the petitioner herein received Notice under Section 12 (2) of the Act on 29.04.2008. Therefore, there is absolutely no justification on the part of the respondent authorities in rejecting the application of the petitioner herein as time barred. The above aspects manifestly show that the application submitted by the petitioner herein under Section 18 of the
