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. 11238 of 2015 by which the High Court has allowed the said writ petition and has declared that the land acquisition proceedings initiated under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as “Act 1894”) with regard to the land in question 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 Another have preferred the present appeal.

2. From the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court and even from the counter affidavit filed on behalf of the Land Acquisition Collector filed before the High Court, which is reproduced by the High Court in the impugned judgment and order in paragraph 6, it was the specific case on behalf of the appellants that the possession of the land in question was taken over on 03.12.2012 after preparing possession proceeding on the spot and was handed over to the beneficiary department, i.e. D