( 1 ) IN all the above Writ Petitions the petitioners have challenged the acquisition of their lands by the Bangalore Development Authority for the formation of Visweswaraiah Layout. As common questions of law and facts do arise for consideration in all these Writ Petitions, they are clubbed and heard together and disposed of by this common order.

( 2 ) THE petitioners in all these petitions could be broadly classified as under:- (a) The owners of lands who are either cultivating the land personally or who have put up constructions on the said lands and using them either for residential purposes, non-residential purposes or industrial purposes. (b) The owners of sites. (i) Who have purchased sites in agricultural lands. (ii) who have purchased sites in layouts which are not approved and formed in agricultural lands. (iii) who have purchased sites in layouts which are formed after conversion and after obtaining the necessary permission/sanction from the local authorities. (iv) who have purchased sites in any of the modes aforesaid and who have put up constructions and who are living there. (c) Petitioners who are having garden land, nursery land. (d) Petitioners who lands are in the

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