ANIRUDDHA BOSE, J.

1. In these two appeals, the appellants, Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (in F.M.A. No. 4805 of 2015) and the State of West Bengal in (M.A.T. No. 347 of 2016) are seeking to invalidate the judgment and order of the learned First Court directing the State Authorities to acquire a property comprising of an area of 2 Bighas 8 Cottas 3 Chittacks and 38 Sq. ft. situated in Mouza Kasba, Holding No. 333, under Sub-Division Block ‘K’, Division-V, Police Station Kasba, in the District of South 24 Parganas, upon notice to the writ petitioners and pass award accordingly. The judgment and order of the learned First Court delivered on 2nd June 2015 further directs award compensation thereof to the legitimate owners of the said land, being the writ petitioners, who are the respondents before us. This direction was issued by the learned First Court after the Court found the said land stood appropriated by the State and its agency, KMDA, without taking recourse to any legal proceeding and a housing complex had been allowed to come up there, in spite of a status quo order passed by the Trial Court in a suit brought by the writ petitioners. During pendency of t