( 1 ) THESE Letter Patent Appeals having arisen out of a common judgment and involving similar questions of law were taken up for hearing together and are being disposed of by this common judgment. However, we may consider the fact of the matter from the file of lpa 66/2001 arising out of CWP 1950/2000.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is a registered association. Its members allegedly have entered into agreements with the fourth respondenent for purchase of freehold plots at Okhla Enclave in the State of Haryana. The respondent No. 4 allegedly had booked thousands of plots without obtaining requisite licence as is mandatorily required in terms of Section 7 of the Haryana Development and regulation of Urban Areas Act, 1975 (hereinafter referred to for the sake of brevity as "the Act" ). Allegedly, the respondent No. 4 kept the purchasers at dark to the effect that although specific plots were being booked, approval for development and setting up of colony itself had not been obtained in terms of the provisions of the said Act. Allegedly, the official respondents had issued advertisements in the newspapers stating that the said respondents had been acting illegally in receiving appli