JUDGMENT - C.S. DHARMADHIKARI, J.:---Since all these writ petitions involve common questions of law and fact and relate to the same proceedings, they were heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgement.

2. A development plan for Nashik City was sanctioned by the State Government and brought into force in the year 1959. In this plan, the lands involved in these writ petition were reserved for road widening. Thereafter in the year 1975, the said plan was sought to be revised and a revised draft plan was published which came to be sanctioned in the year 1980 and came into force on 29th of November, 1980. In this revised plan also, the properties in question were reserved for road widening. On 19th of March, 1980 by a request letter to the collector in that behalf procedure for acquisition of lands was started by the then, Administrator of the Municipal Council, Nasik. In its turn the said proposal came to be forwarded by the Collector to the Special Land Acquisition Officer. Thereafter a notification dated 31st August, 1981 came to be published in the Government Gazette on 1st of October, 1981 under section 126(2) of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 19

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