1. The appellants are all land owners who have lost their lands or in the process of losing and in fact they are fighting a losing battle to save their lands for livelihood or sustenance due to the compulsory take over of this land by the State Government by issue of notifications u/s 3 (1), (3) and 28 of the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Act, 1966 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. Appellants/land owners’ effort to save their lands from the sweep of acquisition by the State Government by filing writ petitions before this Court having failed as the learned Single Judge of this Court opined that there is no merit in the contentions urged in support of the writ petitioners, challenge to the acquisition proceedings under the Act and more so, the number of writ petitioners before the Court who had questioned the validity of the acquisition proceedings by the State Government being not even 1/10th of the land holders whose lands had been notified for acquisition and more so when more than 9/10th of the land losers had in fact given their consent for acquisition or to be precise if they have not chosen to challenge the legality of acquisition proceedings and if the Court shoul