Judgment

WANCHOO, J. :

These four appeals on certificates granted by the High Court of Calcutta arise out of the same land acquisition proceedings and raise the same points and will be dealt with together. There ware two petitions before the High Court under Art. 226 of the Constitution challenging the land acquisition proceedings which were dealt with together. The learned Single Judge who originally dealt with the matters dismissed the petitions. Then followed two appeals to the Division Bench of the High Court, which were allowed. Four applications were then made for certificates to appeal to this Court, two of them by the State of West Bengal and two by the Ramakrishna Mission (hereinafter referred to as the Mission) in whose favour the acquisiton proceedings ware taken. That is why we have four appeals before us, two by the State of West Bengal and two by the Mission. We propose to deal with them together in the judgment.

2. The Mission is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 and the object of the society inter alia, is to impart and promote the study of Vedanta and its principles as propounded by Sri Ramakrishna and of comparative theology in its wi