IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2022

(@ Special Leave Petition (C) No. of 2022)

(@ Diary No. 24608/2022)

DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ...APPELLANT

VERSUS

HARINDER KAUSHIK & ORS. ….RESPONDENTS

O R D E R

Delay condoned.

Leave granted.

Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned

judgment and order dated 24-01-2017 passed by the High

Court of Delhi at New Delhi in Writ Petition (Civil) No.

9629/2015, by which the High Court has allowed the said

writ petition and has declared the acquisition with

respect to the land in question as lapsed under Section

24 (2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency

in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act,

2013 (for short `the 2013 Act’), the Delhi Development

Authority has preferred the present appeal.

Form the impugned judgment and order passed by the

High Court, it appears that while declaring the

acquisition in question lapsed under Section 24(2) of the

2013 Act, the High Court has relied upon the decision of

this Court in the case of Pune Municipal Corporation &

Anr