(1.) This judgment will dispose of a batch of 11 appeals against the judgment of a learned Single Judge of this Court in 11 petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution. The judgment was delivered on 19.7.1971 in No. 303 of 1970.
(2.) Originally 14 writ petitions were filed by different petitioners. They related to different pieces of land but were posted and heard together as the facts and the points for determination were similar. They were also disposed of by a common judgment. It however seems that out of those 14 petitions, 11 appeals were filed in this Court.
(3.) There is no dispute as to facts which lie in a narrow compass. On 13-11-1959 a notification under S.4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 which will hereafter be described as the Acquisition Act, was issued in respect of an area of 34070 acres of land stating that the said land was required by the Government at the public expense for a public purpose, namely, the planned development of Delhi.