1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5 OF 2008 Faram Eruch Irani & Ors.... ... .... Petitioners. Versus Special Land Acquisition Officer (III) and Others. .. .... ... Respondents. Mr. Vijay Thorat, Sr. Advocate i/by M/s. S.K.Srivastava & Co., for the Petitioners. Mr. D. A. Nalawade, Government Pleader for Respondent Nos.1 to 4. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and S. A. BOBDE, JJ. DATED : 21ST JANUARY, 2008. P.C.: In this writ petition, an Award passed in the year 1986 with respect to acquisition of land, has been challenged by the petitioners. Twenty-two years have passed and no grievance was expressed against the award for all these years, except reference, which is pending before the appropriate court. Since the reference is pending, it will not be proper for this court to entertain the writ petition which mainly challenges the award. 2. Besides twenty-two years have passed from the date of the award, if the petitioners had any grievance about the award, which according to him could not have been addressed in terms of Land Acquisition Act by the 2 reference court, he should have been prompt to come to this Court. He submits that he had filed a writ petition earlier being Writ Petition No. 12766 of 1986 in this case. We have gone through the order, copy of which is annexed as Exhibit “F” to the petition, and we find that in that writ petition award was not challenged. 3. In this view of the matter, we do not find any merit in the writ petition. The writ petition is, accordingly, dismissed. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (S. A. BOBDE, J.)