JUDGMENT :

Somasekhar Sundaresan, J.

1. Rule. The Respondents waive service. By consent of parties, Rule is made returnable forthwith, and the Writ Petition is taken up for final hearing and disposal.

2. This Petition, filed in 2018, is essentially a challenge to an order passed by the Respondent No. 2, Divisional Commissioner, Pune Division, in January 2006[Originally, the prayer in Paragraph 30(b) of the Petition referred to this order as being passed in June 2006, while the amended and added prayer at Paragraph 30(bb) provides a date of February, 2006. However, the order, appended before and after the Petition was amended to bring on record documents received under the Right to Information Act, 2005, shows the typed date simply as January 2006 (without a date) but it appears to have been signed on February 8, 2006.], rejecting a revision application filed by the Petitioners under Section 48(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (“the Land Acquisition Act”). The primary prayer in this Petition was for a declaration that the acquisition had lapsed by reason of Section 24 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (