Judgment

S.C. Agrawal, J.-Civil Appeals Nos. 4546-48/92 and Civil Appeals Nos. 4543-45/1992 :

These appeals arise out of three writ petitions filed by way of public interest litigation in the Karnataka High Court to challenge the order dated June 29, 1991 passed by the Government of Karnataka approving the scheme framed by M/s. D.L.F. Universal Limited (For short “DLF”) for development of 270 sites for country villas in Tavarekere Hobli, Bangalore South Taluk, Bangalore District. By its judgment dated April 24, 1992 the High Court, while allowing the said writ petitions, has set aside the said order of the State Government dated June 29, 1991.

2. During the period 1972-76, forty-two serving and retired members of the Indian Defence Forces individually purchased lands admeasuring about 414 acres in Magadi Taluk of Bangalore Rural District. The owners of these lands formed themselves into a Cooperative society called “the Arkavati Progressive Farmers Cooperative Society” (herein­after referred to as `the Cooperative Society’). In 1979 the said land owners submitted applications before the Special Deputy Commissioner, Bangalore Rural District, for permission to divert their lands to non-