By impugned judgment, the Division Bench dismissed the appeal and upheld the order of the Single Judge with the following observations companytained in Para 4 of the judgment We have perused the record of the writ petition and in the writ petition there is number a single averment that the possession of the land has number been taken.
The Single Judge of the High Court dismissed the writ petition by order dated 08.04.2016 on the ground of delay and laches.
Challenging the land acquisition proceedings, the appellants filed petition being Writ Petition C No.696/2016 before the High Court.
The writ petitioners felt aggrieved and filed intra court appeal before the Division Bench.
Since the writ petition was dismissed on the ground of delay and laches, numberground of challenge raised by the writ petitioners appellants herein was gone into by the Single Judge.
In order to appreciate the short legal issue involved in the appeal, few relevant facts, which lie in a narrow companypass, need to be mentioned herein below.
The appellants are the writ petitioners before the High Court.
