( 1 ) THE petitioner No. 1 is a Private Limited Company being incorporated under the Companies Act and petitioner No. 2 is a share holder and director of the said petitioner No. 1 who is also a citizen of India. The said petitioner No. 1 company filed an application for allotment of a plot of land sometime in the year 1980 for the purpose of construction of a three Star Hotel in Salt Lake area. By letter No. 1477-SL (AL) 2l-31/60 5 dated 6-5-1982 issued by the then Deputy Secretary of the Metropolitan Development Department of Govt. of West Bengal which is marked as Annexure 'a' to the connected petition and the offer was given in favour of the said petitioner for grant of lease an area of land approximately measuring about 1 acre in Block 1b in Sector III of the Salt Lake City on a payment of Salami at the rate of Rs. 20,000/- per Cottah far the purpose of construction of the proposed hotel. Pursuant to the said offer and in compliance of the terms of the offer, a sum of Rs. 12,10,000/- as Salami was paid in favour of the concerned Authorities. Thereafter, the respondents caused a letter to be issued on 5-1-1987 to the petitioner asking them to pay a further sum o