JUDGMENT :

T.S. Sivagnanam, C.J.

1. All the three writ petitions were heard analogously as the common challenge is to the land acquisition done by the State of West Bengal and the project conceived and developed by the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (HIDCO).

2. WPA Nos. 27353 of 2017 and 13936 of 2017 have been filed as public interest litigations by an organisation and five individuals who are the petitioners.

3. WPA 10590 of 2019 has been filed by seven petitioners claiming to be land losers whose land were acquired under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1894 Act).

4. In WPA 27353 of 2017, the petitioners prayed for quashing the entire land acquisition proceedings and for a declaration to declare the decision of the respondents to use the acquired land for real estate business as being illegal and amounts to fraud and void; for a writ of mandamus to declare the cabinet decision to transfer the land from the West Bengal Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IIDC) to HIDCO and for other consequential and incidental relief.

5. WPA 13936 of 2017 also seeks for an identical prayer. The petitioners in WPA 10590 of 2019 have pr