KHALIL-UR-REHMAN RAMDAY, J.-- Having argued the matter at some length and on being confronted with the fact that the acquiring agency was not only, ready and willing to make the assessed payment but had in fact deposited the amount in question which had since been paid to respondents land owners; the fact that no one including the petitioners or even the acquiring agency had challenged the award of the L.A.C.; the fact that in the criminal case which was got registered against the allegedly delinquent officials, the accused persons had been exonerated; the fact that even the departmental proceedings allegedly initiated against the concerned revenue officials stood almost abandoned; the fact that Section 48 of the Land Acquisition Act did not permit withdrawal of acquisition after possession had been taken over and the fact that pursuant to the impugned withdrawal of acquisition the acquiring agency could not restore the land in question to its original owners as a highway already stood constructed there, the learned Advocate General elected not to press this petition and justifiably so.
2. In view of the above prayer made by the learned Advocate-General, this petition is disposed of as not pressed. ,