JUDGMENT :

Suvra Ghosh, J.

1. Since the fact as well as law involved in the three writ petitions are similar, all of them are taken up for consideration together and proposed to be disposed of by a common judgment.

2. The notice of eviction issued by the Divisional Engineer (HQ), South Eastern Railway, Kharagpur on 22nd March, 2023 is assailed in the writ petitions.

3. It is contended on behalf of the petitioners that plot of land was allotted in favour of the petitioners by the respondents by virtue of allotment letters issued in 1979 and the petitioners constructed shop rooms in the said plots at their own expenses. The respondents authority issued a notice upon the licensees on 31st December, 1997 directing them to deliver vacant possession of the plot in question in favour of the authority and restore the same to its original state on the ground that the plot was required by the railways for expansion of station, circulating area, etc. The notice was impugned by the licensees and by an order passed on 12th May, 1998 in W.P. 2997 of 1998, a co-ordinate Bench of this Court set aside the notice upon submission made by the Railway Authority before the Court that the notice be set a