( 1 ) IN all these writ applications filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of india, the legality of the actions on the part of the respondents in treating the petitioners unequally with another similarly circumstanced person in the matter of following different modes of calculation for payment of damage compensations for the lands belonging to them are under challenge.

( 2 ) THE petitioners in all these writ applications are the owners of plots of land lying and situated in different mouzas of the same areas in the District of Hooghly. Notices were sewed upon all of them in the months of January 1973, by the Land Acquisition Collector-cum-District Magistrate, Hooghly in exercise of powers conferred by sub-section (1a) of Section 3 of the West bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1948 initiating requisition cases in respect of the plots of land belonging the petitioners for construction of mundeswari Left Embankment 13 miles. Possessions in respect of all the plots of land were taken by the respondents in the months of January and February, 1973. Subsequently notices were issued either on predecessors of the petitioners or on the petitioners for payment of 80 per c

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