BIMLA DEVI Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted. It is a common ground of the parties that the award was passed on 18.11.1995 and the compensation has not been paid nor deposited in the court nor received by the Appellants till date i.e. 31.1.2014 and even the physical possession of the land in question is with the Appellants as on date.

(2.) The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (for short "2013 Act") came into effect on 1.1.2014. It is submitted by the Appellants and not contested by the Respondents that in view of Section 24 of 2013 Act, the land acquisition proceedings have lapsed.

(3.) In a recent decision of this Court in Pune Municipal Corporation and Anr. v. Hrakchand Misrimal Solanki and Ors., 2014 3 SCC 183, a three Judge Bench speaking through one of us (R.M. Lodha, J.) considered the scope of Section 24 particularly the meaning of the expression "compensation has not been paid" in Section 24(2) of 2013 Act and held as under: