Aggrieved by the dismissal of the writ petitions filed by the appellants herein in W.P.No.21186/2010 and W.P.No.23885895/2010, dated 20.04.2012. The unsuccessful writ petitioners are in these appeals.

2. Heard Sri. S. Vijayshankar, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the appellants, learned Government Advocate for respondent no.1 and Shri. D.N. Nanjunda Reddy, learned Senior Counsel appearing for respondent nos. 2 and 3 and the learned counsel appearing for the applicants.

3. The facts leading to these appeals are as hereunder:

According to the appellants, about 180 acres of lands of their family situated in Jakkasandra Village at Bangalore South Taluk was acquired by the then City Improvement Trust Board, Bangalore (hereinafter referred to as ‘CITB’ for short) under a preliminary notification dated 26.11.1959 for formation of house sites and industrial sites. A further extent of 102 acres of land was acquired for formation of St.John’s Medical College in the year 1965. On 26.06.1969 the then C.I.T.B., Bangalore passed a resolution to reconvey 8 acres, 21 guntas of land in survey No.26/1, 36/6, 32/8, 32/9, 32/10 and 32/17 of Jakkasandra Village now known as Koramangala Extens