( 1 ) THESE batches of writ petitions are filed by the owners of agricultural and/or converted lands, house sites, residential/farm houses, companies and builders and others questioning the legality, validity and correctness of the acquisition of vast extent of lands for a development scheme called AEKAVATHI LAYOUT. The main features of the layout, as mentioned in the report of the Engineering Department of the BDA, are: (a) total extent of land required 2750 acres (b) proposed residential sites 28600 (c) civic Amenity sites 50 (d) commercial sites 150 (e) total estimation rs. 933. 47 Crores (f) total amount received rs. 981. 36 Crores (g) saving rs. 47. 89 Crores (h) no. of villages covered 16 (i) no. of applicants 2,32,000 the details of various dimensions of the residential sites, the extent of land used for various purposes such as residential sites, park and play grounds, civic amenities, roads etc. , the amount that would be realised from the sites, the total expenditure to be incurred for the formation of the layout, in question are furnished by the BDA in its report, which is available in the original files produced before this Court.

( 2 ) THE brief facts that gave rise to

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