As per the case facts, development authorities appealed against High Court judgments directing them to pay compensation to landowners under the 2013 Act. The appeals reached the Supreme Court to ... clarify the applicable law for compensation. The question arose whether landowners, whose acquisition proceedings were pending or stayed, should receive compensation under the 2013 Act or the 1894 Act. Finally, the Supreme Court allowed the appeals, setting aside the High Court judgments. It ruled that landowners with pending or stayed proceedings would only be entitled to compensation under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, by applying Section 114 of the 2013 Act read with Section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897.