The judgment of the Court was as follows :––

In this rule, the petitioners have challenged the order of requisition dated March 17, 1976 issued by the Collector of 24 Parganas under the West Bengal Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1948, hereinafter referred to as the Act.

2. The petitioner Nos. 6 to 29 were roadside shopkeepers of Madhyamgram and their shops were situate on the crossing of Sodepur Road and Jessore Road. They were carrying on their business by erecting temporary sheds at the said crossing. Their shops were demolished by the Government on December 31, 1975 and they were evicted from the lands they had been occupying on the ground that they were unauthorized occupants of Government lands. Most of them are displaced persons from East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, and they used to maintain them and the members of their respective families out of the income of their shops. After they were dispossessed, they made representations to the respondent No.2, the Administrator, Baraset II Anchalic Parishad, Barasat for making some alternative arrangements so that the shopkeepers of the locality might not loose the only means of their livelihood. On such representations,