JUDGMENT :

M.R. Shah, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court of Delhi at New Delhi in Writ Petition (C) No. 2674 of 2017 by which the High Court has declared that the acquisition proceedings initiated under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as “Act, 1894”) with regard to the subject land is deemed to have 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 “Act, 2013”), the Government of NCT of Delhi and Anr. have preferred the present appeal.

2. From the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court, it appears that a specific objection was raised on behalf of the appellants – original respondents that the original writ petitioner being subsequent purchaser is not entitled to challenge the acquisition proceedings. Before the High Court, it was also specifically pointed out and so stated in the counter that the possession of the land in question was taken over on 16.07.2007. However, thereafter, overruling the objection on behalf of the appellants on the maintainability of the w