( 1 ) RESPONDENTS 1 to 57 to this appeal claim to be the owners of the lands situated in the different mouzas P. S. Basanti, District 24-Parganas. They have purported to give a detailed list of the lands allegedly owned by them in the Annexure 'a' to the writ petition filed by them. They have alleged that each of them personally cultivate the said lands and that none of these lands are cultivated by Bagadars. On 1st September, 1978 the Officer-in-Charge, Centralised Halka Camp, Basanti, 24-Parganas had issued a memo addressed to the Secretary to the local congress committee enclosing a list of mouzas where Operation Barga work would start very soon on priority basis. The said memo contained a list of proposed sites for offices for the aforesaid purpose. The respondents 1 to 57 herein in their writ petition have inter alia, prayed that the appellants in this appeal (the respondents in the writ petition) be commanded to cancel and re-call the aforesaid memo and to prohibit them from taking any steps in the Operation Barga. They have prayed for quashing of the impugned memo and the notice. Their writ petition also contains a prayer for issue of app