JUDGMENT - Mrs. MANOHAR SUJATA, J.:---Appeals Nos. 1141 of 1991 and 1152 of 1991 are in respect of Writ Petitions Nos. 3215 of 1991 and 3511 of 1991 respectively. These writ petitions have been admitted but no interim orders have been granted. These appeals are from the order refusing to grant any interim reliefs. By consent of parties the original writ petitions are also placed for hearing along with the group of Petitions Nos. 433 of 1987 and others. The respondents waive service in respect of these two petitions.

2. All these petitions pertain to 48 plots of land situated at Mount Mary, Bandra Band Stand, Bombay. The respondent i.e. the State of Maharashtra is the owner of these plots of land. The State has executed long term leases in respect of these plots of land in favour of private parties from 1907 onwards. The petitioners in these writ petitions are the present lessees of these 48 plots of land from the State Government. They have challenged in these writ petitions a decision of the State Government dated 14th March, 1986 under which the State Government has increased the lease rent in respect of residential plots of land in question to 25 times what the petitioners were p

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