These writ petitions raise important questions of law and fact. Hence, they have been clubbed together and are heard and disposed of by this common order.

2. At the out set, it is stated that in W.P.No.17290/2014 & W.P.Nos.17673-17687/2014, reference was made to filing of O.S.No.9493/1999 by the petitioners in those writ petitions. At the fag end of hearing of these writ petitions, I noted that I had filed the said suit in the year 1999, but thereafter, another advocate appeared in the suit and it was ultimately dismissed on 27.09.2010. When this aspect was brought to the notice of learned Senior counsel and learned counsel appearing in these writ petitions by me, without any hesitation, they submitted, in unison, that I could proceed to adjudicate these writ petitions. In the circumstances, I concluded the hearing of these writ petitions and have decided the matters.

3. These writ petitions arise pursuant to issuance of Preliminary Notification dated 19.09.1977 under Section 17(1) of the Bangalore Development Authority Act, 1976, (hereinafter, referred to as ‘the BDA Ac