P. A. CHOUDHARY, J.

( 1 ) RESPONDENTS 2 to 6 own excess vacant lands in Hyderabad urban agglomeration. We are concerned in this Writ Petition with an extent of acs 7. 01 guntas of vacant land situated in S. Nos 23, 24 and 194/6 of begumpet Paigah Village within the said urban agglomeration. The excess vacant land ot the respondents 2 to 6 is liable to be, acquired by the government under the provisions of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulations)Act 1976. As a corolary to the above, the Act denies freedom to the owners to sell their excess vacant lands except by the leave and exemption obtained by them from the Government under the above Act. In the hope of securing such exemption the respondents had agreed to sell the above mentioned vacant land to the writ petitioner, the Wholesale Clother Merchants association of Secunderabad at Rs. 75/. per square yard. For that purpose they entered into an agreement of sale with the writ petitioner on 13th December, 1979. The Writ-petitioner-association has plans to shift their present cloth-market from the highly congested and densely populated Secunderabad area and to establish a grand modern cloth-market on this site. The petitioner-associati

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