1. The appellant herein calls in question legality, validity and correctness of the judgment & order dated 11-2-2020 passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(C)No.595/2020 by which the appellant’s writ petition has been dismissed holding that once the amount of compensation has been disbursed, the Sub-Divisional Officer / Land Acquisition Officer becomes functus officio and liberty has been reserved in favour of the appellant to take appropriate remedies available to him for recovery of the said amount from respondent No.3, in accordance with law. 2. Mr. Ashish Surana, learned counsel appearing for the appellant, submits that once the dispute is raised by the appellant in light of Section 3H (4) of the National Highways Act, 1956 (for short, ‘the NH Act’), it was incumbent on the part of the competent authority / respondent No.2 i.e. Sub-Divisional Officer (Revenue) / Land Acquisition Officer to refer the dispute to the decision of the principal civil court of original jurisdiction within the limits of whose jurisdiction the land is situated for deciding the issue, but the competent authority itself could not have decided the issue holding that the appellan