JUDGMENT

PUNCHHI, J.—Special leave granted in this bunch of petitions.

2. These appeals are directed against the common judgment and order dated February 22, 1990 passed by a Division Bench of the Patna High Court in a batch of writ petitions, preferred before it in the years 1983 and 1984, excepting one in the year 1988, whereby declaration under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act (the Act) dated March 16/18, 1983 was quashed and the case remitted to the State Government for further proceedings under two heads.

3. The appellants herein are a few members of the Bihar Finance Service House Construction Cooperative Society, a society registered way back in the year 1973, under the Bihar and Orissa Cooperative Societies Act. Its members, the appellants state, are about 400 in number. It was stated to have been floated by members of the Bihar Finance Service who were landless and did not own any residential plot or house in the city of Patna. Statedly, its membership was not confined to the members of the Bihar Finance Service alone but was open to everyone who was similarly landless. The Society was organised and knit to secure from the State Government land by acquisition so that th