JUDGMENT - H.W. DHABE, J.:---All these writ petitions are connected writ petitions and can conveniently be disposed of by this common judgment. Since the subject matter of all these writ petitions relates to the acquisition of land of the petitioners for approach lights for night landing of the aeroplanes at the Airport at Aurangabad, an urgent hearing was pressed in these writ petitions by the respondents as there was an interim stay precluding them from taking any further proceedings in this matter. We have therefore, heard the learned Counsel for the parties at length at the stage of notice before admission and are, therefore, disposing of these writ petitions finally. We thus issue rule in these writ petitions which are heard forthwith.

2. Briefly, the facts are that originally the Notification under section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short, "the Act") was issued by the respondent No. 5 i.e. the Special Land Acquisition Officer on 19-11-1987, published in the Govt. Gazette on 28-1-1988, for acquisition of 4 hectares 95 acres of land from the field survey No. 23/2 of village Murtizapur belonging to the petitioners in these writ petitions. After the personal notic

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