Judgment

MUDHOLKAR, J: (B. P. Sinha, C.J.I. ,Kajagopala Ayyangar & Venkatarama Aiyar, JJ. concurring.) The petitioners who have acquired over six acres of land by purchase for Rs. 4,50,000 in February, 1961 under five sale deeds and one lease deed claim to have done so for the purpose of establishing a paper mill in collaboration with Messrs. R. S. Madhoram and Sons who had been granted a licence for the establishment of a paper plant in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. The aforesaid land is statute in the village Meola Maharajpur, Tehsil Ballabhgarh, District Gurgaon and abuts on the Mathura Road, and is only about 10 or 12 miles from New Delhi. Respondent No. 6, Air Conditioning Corporation (P) Ltd., is a private limited concern and holds a licence from the Government of India for starting a factory for the manufacture of various ranges of refrigeration compressors and ancillary equipment. We may mention here that initially this project was allotted to the State of West Bengal but at the request of the State of Punjab its location was shifted to the State of Punjab.

2. The respondent No. 6 requested the State of Punjab for the allotment of an appropriate site for the location of the fac