MORADABAD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Vs. SAMI AHMAD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) M. Katju, J. This first appeal and other first appeals which are listed at Serial Nos. 24 to 79 in todays Cause List involve a common question of law and relate to the acquisition of land in the same Village. Hence they are being disposed off by this common judgment.

(2.) HEARD Sri A. K. Misra learned counsel for the appellants and Sri Pankaj Mittal for the respondents. One of the counsels for the respondents in this case and some connected cases in shown in the cause list to be Sri V. P. Rai, Advocate who has sent as illness slip. However, it appears that in many of these cases Sri Pankaj Mittal is also counsel alongwith Sri V. P. Rai and we have heard Sri Pankaj Mittal in this bunch of cases. We are not inclined to adjourn these cases despite the illness slip sent by Sri V. P. Rai because the point involved is covered by the decision of the Division Bench of this Court in First Appeal No. 251 of 1997 Moradabad Development Authority v. Chidda and others, [since reported in 2004 (1) JCLR 920 (All) connected with First Appeal Nos. 253 of 1997 and 254 of 1997 decided on 3- 3-2004.

(3.) FOLLOWING the decision of this Court in Moradabad Development Authority v. Chidda (supra) and Krishi Utpadan Mandi Samiti v. Khusi Ram this appeal and connected appeals are allowed and the impugned judgments are set aside.