JUDGMENT

Ravi Shanker Jha, C.J. - Shorn of unnecessary details, the issue involved in the instant writ petition is whether the acquisition proceedings qua the land of the petitioner have lapsed under Section 24 (2) of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.

2. Before entering into the respective pleadings by the parties, it needs necessary mention that owing to the pendency of interpretation of the provisions of Section 24 (2) of the Act of 2013 before the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, the petition including the present one wherein the writ jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India was sought to be invoked, were kept pending; awaiting the outcome of the issue at hand by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India. After seeing various interpretations, the controversy erupted was finally set at rest by the Hon'ble Constitution Bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the case titled as Indore Development Authority Vs. Manohar Lal cited as AIR 2020 SC 1496. The penultimate para of the judgment is reproduced here in below:-

'.... 1. Under the provisions of Section 24(1)(a) in case the a