JUDGMENT

Banerjee, J.-Leave granted.

2. The Municipal Coporation, Ahmednagar and another are in appeal against an order of the Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) in Writ Petition No. 1156 of 1993, wherein the Writ Petition filed by the respondent Nos. 1 to 3 herein, Shah Hyder Beig and two others was allowed and the Municipal Corporation was directed to make over vacant possession of the land bearing CTS No. 5761-A situated at Ahmednagar to the petitioners within a period of three months from the date of the Judgment. The High Court further directed the writ petitioners to refund the amount of compensation received by them for the acquired land within a period of four weeks from the date of handing over the possession of the land to them by the respondent Corporation along with certain consequential orders. The facts of the matter being singularly singular ought to be adverted to at this juncture.

3. The facts depict that the Writ Petition before the High Court was filed on 21st October, 1992, for setting aside the Award dated 26th April, 1976 in regard to CTS 5761 of Ahmednagar Town. Subsequent thereto, however, the Writ Petition was amended for issuance of a Writ of Certiorari fo