Judgment

KASLIWAL, J.:- All the above Special Leave Petitions by builders in the city of Pune are directed against the judgment of the Division Bench of the Bombay High Court dated 18-10-1991 dismissing the writ petitions filed by the petitioners. The learned Judges in their order dated 18-10-1991 stated that the controversy raised in the petition before them stood concluded by an earlier decision of the Division Bench dated 15-4-1987. Thus, no reasons have been recorded in the impugned order and in order to decide the controversy before us learned Counsel referred to the decision of the High Court dated 15-4-1987.

2. The factual matrix of the above cases may be slightly different, but the legal controversies are common to all the cases and as such we are disposing of all matters by one common order. It was pointed out during the course of arguments that many more cases are pending in the various courts at different stages and the fate of those cases also hinges on the decision of these cases. In order to appreciate the controversies raised in these cases, we would narrate the facts of SLP No. 647 of 1992 and 985 of 1992 which in our view would cover the entire spectrum of the questi