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Locality, the question of notifying the locality might probably arise when all the lands in a village are sought to be acquired. Otherwise the word 'locality' is a word of such indefinite import that it is difficult to conceive of any locality in any particular village being notified for acquisition. Therefore when a locality in the sense of a village or perhaps a group of villages is notified for acquisition any person interested in any land in that locality would be entitled to be heard under s. 5A, Navneet Ram Batra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 2144 (2146): (1975) 2 SCC 727: (1976) 1 SCR 826. [Land Acquisition Act (10 of 1894), s. 5A]