JUDGMENT :

M.R. Shah, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 31.08.2015 passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in Special Civil Application No.9740/2012 by which the Division Bench of the High Court of Gujarat has allowed the said writ petition 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 “Act, 2013”) as also the judgment and order dated 01.04.2016 passed by the High Court of Gujarat in Misc. Civil Application (For Review) No.3036 of 2015 in Special Civil Application No.9740/2012, the State of Gujarat and others have preferred the present appeals.

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

2.1 That, the respondent herein – original writ petitioner was the owner of the land bearing Survey No.287 admeasuring 2 Hectare 37 Are 75 Sq. Mtrs. of village Tarsava, Taluka Vaghodia, District Vadodara (hereinafter referred to as “land in question”). A notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition