JUDGMENT :

1. Petitioners have preferred instant writ petitions praying for quashing and setting aside the impugned award dated 01/07/2015 passed by the respondent no.4-Land Acquisition Officer & Sub-Divisional Officer, Kishangarh, District Ajmer (hereinafter referred as 'LAO') in so far as the same relates to land of the petitioners having been acquired by the State Government for respondent No.3-Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment Corporation (hereinafter referred to as 'RIICO') for development of Industrial Area, Kishangarh Phase-VI.

2. For the sake of brevity and as the instant two writ petitions invoke the same cause of action and controversy on similar facts and identical questions of law, the same are being decided together and the same may be read as mutatis-mutandis. The lead file in the case is SB Civil Writ Petition No.12012/2015.

3. The respondents issued a notification dt. 14/06/2012 under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred as the 'Act of 1894') for acquisition of the land measuring 541.07 Bigha, situated in village Sanwatsar, Tehsil Kishangarh District Ajmer for industrial area Kishangarh Phase-VI.

4. The said notification dated 14/06/2012 was published in two widely circulated daily newspapers on 14/07/2012. In addition, the said notification was also locally affixed on the site on 19/07/2012.

5. In response to the said notification, objections were filed by the petitioners under Section 5A of the Act of 1894 before the LAO and the same were duly considered by the LAO.

6. On 04/06/2013, declaration was issued under Section 6 of the Act of 1894 for the area measuring 541.07 Bigha and the same was affixed locally on the site on 02/07/2013 as well as published in two widely circulated newspapers on 03/07/2013. On 01/07/2015, final Award of Rs.67.52 crore approximately incorporating additional amount of compensation under the provisions of The Right To Fair Compensation And Transparency In Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation And Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the Act of 2013) was passed. On 31/08/2015, the amount of Award was sent by the RIICO to the LAO, Kishangarh vide cheque No.011878 and out of the total compensation as stated above, payment of compensation to the tune of Rs.63.37 crore approximately has been disbursed to 221 Khatedars out of 234 Khatedars as per the available records which amounts that almost 94% of the total compensation has already been given to the Khatedars. It has also come on record that on 05/02/2016, possession of area measuring 176.02 Bigha; on 31/03/2016, possession of area measuring 217.19 Bigha and on 14/06/2018, possession of 49.02 Bigha was taken by the State and handed to RIICO. It is also important to state that on 28/03/2016, the LAO deposited the rest of the award amount in the reference court. So, the facts suggest that entire amount of compensation has been duly disbursed in above terms and substantial possession out of 541.07 Bigha has been carried out. It is also to be considered that Kishangarh is a fast growing industrial area which is also called as Marble & Granite Mandi and not only in India but abroad, exports and domestic supplies are made. Recently, the Government has also acquired lands through their instrumentality like National Highway Authority of India, Indian Railways, Airport Authority and Rajasthan Housing Board to develop the said area as an industrial belt looking to non- availability of land for industries and close proximity to major cities of Rajasthan.

7. In this background, the above petitioners have filed these two writ petitions being aggrieved by the land acquisition proceedings carried out by the respondents.

8. The submission of the petitioner is that in terms of the Act of 1894, on account of non-application of mind by the LAO, while considering objections under Section 5A of the Act of 1894, the acquisition proceedings were initiated. The LAO ignored to consider that the only source of li