JUDGMENT :

M.R. Shah, J.

1. As common question of law and facts arise in this group of appeals and as such are between the same parties, all these appeals are decided and disposed of together by this common judgment and order.

2. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order in respective writ appeals preferred by the appellant herein - the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee, Bangalore (hereinafter referred to as the “APMC”), by which the Division Bench of the High Court has dismissed the said writ appeals and confirmed the common judgment and order passed by the learned Single Judge passed in respective writ petitions preferred by the private respondents herein - original land owners and declared that the acquisitions of the lands in question has lapsed under Section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as “the Act, 2013”), the APMC, Bangalore has preferred the present appeals.

3. The facts leading to the present appeals in a nutshell are as under:

3.1 That the lands in question were acquired in three parts. The first acquisition was in respect of