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Challenge in these appeals is to the judgments passed by learned Single Judge whereby the writ petitions preferred by the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran, Gurugram challenging the enhanced compensation having been granted vide award dated 30.07.2020 by the Land Acquisitions Collector on the basis of an application moved by the land owners under Section 28-A of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The challenge is based upon the fact that the said benefit of enhanced compensation was not payable as the statute did not permit the same and secondly that too after a period of limitation prescribed under the Act itself. The said writ petitions were allowed vide the impugned order leading to the filing of the present appeals by the land owners, which have been adversely affected because of the acceptance of the writ petitions, denying them the benefit of enhanced compensation in the light of the judgment passed by the said Court in CWP No.8456 of 2020 titled as "Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd. vs. Shanti and Ors".