Lokeshwar Prasad, J.

( 1 ) SINCE the above mentioned writ petitions, filed under Article 226 of the Constitution, raise common questions for consideration, the same, with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties, have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common order. In all the writ petitions, plots of land, situated in the Vicinity of Connaught Place and India Gate, were auctioned and in respect of those plots of landws, so disposed of by auction, a separate perpetual lease deed,with identical terms, in respect of each such plot, was executed in favour of the auction purchasers by the then Secretary of State for India in Council through the then Commissioner, Delhi. Thereafter by several subsequent acts and assignments in law, the perpetual lease hold rights in respect of the abovesaid plots of land have been transferred in favour of the petitioners in the present writ petitions. Thus, it is not in dispute that each of the petitioners in the present writ petitions is the recognised lessee in respect of the plot in question so purchased by him. Initially, in terms of the lease deeds, on the plots in question, a single storeyed residential house was const

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