JUDGMENT

S.B. Sinha, J.—Leave granted in S.L.P.s.

2. Both these appeals involving common questions of law and fact were taken up for hearing together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

3. Two Writ Petitions in the nature of public interest litigations were filed by the Appellant herein before the High Court questioning allotment of lands measuring 20000 sq. feet and 8000 sq. feet in favour of Sh. Bishambhar Dayal Aggrawal, proprietor Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper, Jabalpur and YMCA, private respondents herein respectively by the State of Madhya Pradesh.

Jabalpur Development Authority (JDA).

4. The lands in question indisputably come within the Master Plan made in terms of the Madhya Pradesh Nagar Tatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam, 1973 (for short ‘the 1973 Act’) in relation to the town of Jabalpur brought about by the Jabalpur Development Authority (for short "JDA"), a statutory authority constituted thereunder. Prior to coming into force of the 1973 Act, the legislature of the State of Madhya Pradesh enacted the Madhya Pradesh Town Improvement Trusts Act, 1960 (for short "the 1960 Act") in terms whereof Jabalpur Improvement Trust was created for the purpose of carrying out the pro