JUDGMENT :

M.R. Shah, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 20.12.2017 passed by the High Court of Delhi at New Delhi in Writ Petition (Civil) No.12174 of 2015 by which the High Court has allowed the said writ petition preferred by the respondent no.1 herein – original writ petitioner and has declared that the acquisition with respect 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 ‘the Act 2013’), the Delhi Development Authority has preferred the present appeal.

2. From the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court it appears that it was the specific case on behalf of the LAC before the High Court and so stated in the counter affidavit filed by the LAC that a notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 was issued on 23.09.1989 for planned development of Delhi for the acquisition of the lands falling in Village Ghonda Gujaran Khadar. That award was declared on 19.06.1992 and the actual vacant physical possession of the subject land was taken on 21.03