( 1 ) THE petitioner association is a registered society which applied to respondent DDA in October 1998 for allotment of land for Aditya College of Pharmacy and Science. The North Western Regional Committee of all India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) addressed a letter dated 18. 11. 1998 to the DDA with a copy marked to the petitioner granting permission to the society to start a new institute. A confirmation was sought that the land for the construction of the institute had been allotted to the society which should be of minimum area of 1 acre. This letter is stated to have been issued in response to a letter of society dated 9. 9. 1998 stating that the land for construction of the institute shall be made available in case the institute gets a sponsorship certificate from AICTE. The college was proposed to be started from 1999 session and since no allotment of land had taken place, a representation was made on 5. 3. 1999 to the Minister of Urban Development in this behalf. It appears that in view of the said representation a query was made to the respondent in response whereto the Director (Land) of the respondent informed the Ministry that the request