1. THE petitioners of these Rules are in occupation of respective flats claimed by them in the different Rental Housing Estates in West Bengal. By filing these writ Petitions, they have challenged the validity of the provisions of the West Bengal Government Premises (Regulation of Occupancy) Act, 1984 (West Bengal Act 21 of 1984) (hereinafter called the Government Premises Act, 1984). We have analogously heard as preliminary issue the said question of Constitutional validity of the West Bengal Government Premises (Regulation of Occupancy) Act, 1984.

2. THE West Bengal Government: Premises (Regulation of occupancy) Act, 1984 (West Bengal Act 21 of 1 984) has come into force from 1st of August, 1984 and it extends to the whole of West Bengal. Assent of the President to the said Act was first published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary Issue 90 C. W. N. Gyan Singh v. State of West Bengal 231 of 3rd July, 1984. Premises belonging to or taken on lease or 1icence or requisitioned by or on behalf of the State Government' have been designated in section 2 (n) of the said Act as 'state Premises'. State Premises have been classified into two categories (i) Public Premises and (ii