(1.) Heard Sri S.K. Varma, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Siddhartha Varma, learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Mahendra Pratap, learned counsel for respondent No. 4 i.e. Ghaziabad Development Authority and Sri Bal Krishna, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the respondent Nos. 1 to 3.
(2.) The writ petition is being finally disposed of with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, at the admission stage itself. Since questions of law and fact involved in these two writ petitions are identical and as such they have been connected and heard together and are decided by a common order.
(3.) In the Writ Petition No. 1506 of 2014, petitioners have prayed for following reliefs:-