1. By these proceedings under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the Petitioners (hereafter compendiously referred to as “KPS”) seek a declaration that with the enactment and coming into force of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, (hereafter “Acquisition & Rehabilitation Act”) the lands being occupied by the public school under their management were no longer subject to acquisition; they also seek an order enjoining or prohibiting the respondents from taking any action towards dispossessing them.

2. On 23.1.1965 a notification under Section 4, Land Acquisition Act 1894 (“old Act”) was issued and on 26.12.1968 a declaration under Section 6 was issued in respect of land measuring 80 bighas 7 biswas comprised in Khasra Nos. 1726 (3-3), 1727 (4-16), 1728 (2-12), 1729 (6-14), 1747 (4-16), 1748 (4-16), 1749 (4-16), 1750 (4-16), 1751 (4-16), 1752 (4-16), 1753 (3-5), 1754 (6-2), 1755 (4-16), 1756/2 (3-4), 1757/2 (3-4), 1875 (4-16), 1876 (4-16) and 1877 (4-3) in village Rangpuri alias Malikpur Kohi (Vasant Kunj) Tehsil Mehrauli. The award in respect of these lands (hereafter “the suit lands”) was