Judgment

HIDAYATULLAH, C.J.I. -This is a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution by Messrs. Wire-Netting Stores, a partnership firm, through one of its partners and also by the same partner in his own name. It is directed against the Delhi Development Authority, the Delhi Administration, the Delhi Municipal Corporation and certain officers of the Delhi Development Authority and the Delhi Administration. The petitioners ask for a writ of mandamus or any other writ or order restraining the respondents from dispossessing the petitioners of Khasra No. 257/287 (1523.5 sq. yards) Municipal No. 2330-72 at Bela Estate, Bela Road, Delhi and for restoration of immovable and movable property and goods belonging to the petitioners. The facts are these:

2. The Delhi Development Authority is a statutory authority constituted under Act 61 of 1957 and has taken over properties, rights and liabilities of the Delhi Improvement Trust. The Delhi Municipal Corporation is the successor of the Delhi Municipal Committee under Act 66 of 1957. The plot in question has changed hands in the past. The petitioners have given one version of the changes and the Delhi Development Authority another. Nothing suc