filed. Thereafter, declaration/notification under Section 6 of the 1894 Act was issued on 20.06.2007. As stated in the writ petition, the petitioners had filed CWP-16111-2007 titled as “Rajinder Kumar & Anr. Vs. State of Haryana & Ors.” challenging the acquisition of the land on merits in which vide order dated 05.09.2007 the dispossession was stayed. The award was announced by the Land Acquisition Collector on 28.11.2008. The said writ petition was dismissed vide order dated 03.03.2011, which was challenged before the Supreme Court by filing a SLP which was also dismissed. As per the reply filed by the State, possession was taken vide rapat roznamcha No.645 dated 09.06.2011. It has further been averred in the writ petition that reference was also filed by the petitioners under Section 18 of the 1894 Act for enhancement of compensation, which stood decided. The petitioners also approached this Court by filing a Regular First Appeal (RFA), which was also allowed. A perusal of Annexure P-4 appended with the writ petition, which is an order passed in CR-5246-2012 dated 02.11.2015, reveals that the amount of ₹61,79,130/- on account of interest on ₹1,26,88,152/- was also deposited with the Reference Court on 26.10.2015. The present writ petition was filed averring therein that the period of 05 years had elapsed since the passing of the award on 28.11.2008, however, actual physical possession of the land had not been taken nor the amount of compensation had been paid to the petitioners and, therefore, the acquisition proceedings would be deemed to have lapsed under Section 24(2) of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘2013 Act’). Initially, the present writ petition
