JUDGMENT

Dr. AR. Lakshmanan, J.-The present appeal was filed against the judgment dated 19-5-1995 pronounced by the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad by which the writ petition of the appellant bearing No. 1607 of 1988 was dismissed. The writ petition was filed by the appellant to issue a writ prohibiting the respondents from recovering Rs. 18,72,821.92 constituting cash subsidy plus interest thereon from the appellant-Company as arrears of land revenue after quashing notice dated 15-9-1987 (Annexure 8 to the petition) and recovery certificate dated 31-10-1987 (Annexure 11 to the petition).

2. The sequence of facts and events leading to the filing of this civil appeal are as follows :-

By an order dated 30-9-1982, the Government of Uttar Pradesh formulated a scheme known as Capital Grant Scheme (hereinafter referred to as Scheme ) for the grant of subsidies to various industrial units for giving as impetus to the industrialisation of the backward areas i.e. zero industrial areas of the State.

In the said Scheme, Pioneer Unit has been defined as :

"Such industrial units to be set up during the period from 1-10-1982 to 31-3-1985 firstly in any part of the Te