ORDER :

Uday Umesh Lalit, CJI.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present appeals at the instance of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (‘NOIDA’, for short) take exception to the interim order dated 19.11.2013 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (‘the High Court’, for short) in Civil Miscellaneous Writ Petition Nos. 58555 of 2005, 58702 of 2005 and 61630 of 2005; and in First Appeal No.790 of 2008. Said Writ Petitions were filed by Kendriya Karamchari Sahkari Grih Nirman Samiti Limited (‘Respondent-Society’, for short) challenging the orders passed in Ceiling proceedings holding that there were excess lands in the hands of said Respondent–Society which vested in the State.

3. Certain parcels of land were purchased by Respondent-Society from some individual land holders. According to the authorities, the transfers in favour of Respondent-Society were illegal on two counts.

i) Such transfers were effected in violation of the provisions of Section 154 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (‘U.P. Act’, for short) and, therefore, the lands vested in the State Government.

ii) The second objection pertains to the applicability of Ceiling Law in terms of which