ORDER

In SLPs except SLP Nos. 12720-23/96

We have heard the counsel on both sides. These Special Leave Petitions have been filed against the order of the Division Bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in L.P.A. No. 1368/92 and batch, dated March 1, 1996. The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had invited applications for allotment of sites to establish the high schools, primary schools or nursery schools in the zone earmarked for the schools in Panchkula. Pursuant thereto, several institutions/persons including the petitioners had applied for allotment of sites. HUDA had allotted, out of 23 plots available, sites to 11 persons and denied allotment to eight persons. The non-allotees filed the writ petitions in the High Court challenging the validity of the procedure adopted by the HUDA in allotting sites to the schools. Though the learned single Judge found fault with the allotment, on finding and taking into consideration that pending writ petitions, the petitioners and some of the respondents had constructed buildings and schools were being run at the allotted plots, he upheld their actions and dismissed the writ petitions with the observations mentioned therein. On app