namely, Hindustan Times on 18.12.1995 and in Aaj on 20.12.1995 and thereafter, the compensation amount was deposited in the treasury. It has, further, been pleaded by the respondent no. 6 and 7 that original record and map of the proceeding were found missing and, thereafter, at the direction of this court passed in CWJC No. 4132 of 2005, the original record and map was reconstructed. It has also been pleaded at para 12 of the counter affidavit that respondents had already tendered payment of compensation to the concerned land owners but the concerned land owners refused to accept the compensation and, therefore, Section 24(2) of 2013 Act is not applicable in this case. It has also been pleaded that Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation & Resettlement (Amendment) Second Ordinance 2015 was published in gazette on 30.05.2015 in which a new proviso has been inserted after Section 24(2) of the aforesaid Act which says that “in computing the period referred to in this sub-section, any period during which the proceeding for acquisition of the land were held up on account of any stay or injunction issued by any court or the period specified in the award of a Tribunal for taking possession or such period where possession has been taken but the compensation is lying deposited in a court or in any designated account maintained for this purpose, shall be excluded .” Therefore, in view of the aforesaid provision the proceeding in question cannot be said to have lapsed.
