JUDGMENT

M. S. Sonak, J. - Heard Mr. Shivan Desai for the Petitioner and Mr. D. Pangam, learned Advocate General who appears along with Mr. Pravin Faldessai, learned Additional Government Advocate for the State.

2. The Octogenarian Petitioner questions the constitutional validity of the Goa (Allotment of Plots of Certain Displaced Persons) Act, 2016 (impugned Act) and acquisition of his property admeasuring 35,690.75 sq. mtrs. at Aquem, Salcete, Goa (said property) against the offered compensation of Rs. 1,37,052/-. The impugned Act is single-person legislation; it acquires only the Petitioner's property and not others. Accordingly, the Petitioner has applied for restoration of vacant and encumbrance-free possession of the said property. In the alternative, the Petitioner has prayed for a direction to the State to acquire the said property under the Right to Fair Compensation Act, 2013 (2013 Act) and/or pay compensation corresponding to the prevailing market value at the time of actual acquisition, i.e., as of 27.09.2016.

3. There is no dispute about the Petitioner being the owner of the said property. By Order dated 14.01.1964, the Administrator of the then Union Territory of Goa, Da