JUDGMENT :

(Jay Sengupta, J.) :

1. This is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for direction upon the respondents to complete the acquisition by initiating a proceeding under the provisions of the Right to Fair and Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Settlement Act, 2013 and to pay compensation money to the petitioners in respect of lands recorded in R.S. plot nos. 591/521 and 522 of Mouza Nonadanga, J.L. 10, Police Station Yadavpur (now Tiljala) within the District of South 24 Paraganas according to share in land that were sought to be acquired through LA-II/18 of 1967-68.

2. Mr. Bera, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, submitted as follows. In 1968-69 the Government initiated a proceeding for acquisition of various plots of lands of Mouza – Nonadanga and Laskarhat, Police Station Tiljala, District – 24 Parganas, which included amongst others R.S. Plot No. 591, 521 and 522 of Mouza: Nonadanga for the purpose of construction of link channel connecting the Corporation Drain with the Tollygunge Panchanangram Basin Drainage Scheme under West Bengal Act II of 1948. The acquisition proceeding