( 1 ) THE petitioner No. 1 is a Society registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961, and the petitioner No. 2, a Chartered Accountant, is the Joint Secretary thereof. At the request of the State Government the Society which was operating in Tripura set up a Bull Mother Farm-cum-Rural Training and Demonstration Centre at Ramshai in Jalpaiguri for imparting rural training and cross-breeding on lands allotted by the Government of West Bengal, comprising an area measuring 96. 61 acres under plot Nos. 1410 to 1425, 1677/78 and 1236, J. L. No. 83 (9) under new mouza Ramshai, Thana Maynaguri in the District of Jalpaiguri. Such allotment was subsequently formalised by execution of a registered Indenture of Lease dated 18th March, 1983, whereby the West Bengal Government granted to the Society a lease of the said lands for 30 years commencing from 26th May, 1981, on payment of the stipulated premium and annual rent.

( 2 ) APART from the above, the Society decided to establish another unit of the Dibyadaya Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Jalpaiguri with the support of various Government institutions such as, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Along with