( 1 ) THIS judgment will dispose of a bunch of writ petitions involving common questions and filed more than a decade and a half ago seeking issue of appropriate writ restraining respondent / Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from demolishing the structures of the petitioners. The interim orders restraining DDA from carrying out any demolitions and dispossessing the petitioners are continuing since 1980. . Arguments were addressed in C. W. 730/80 (M/s. Prem Chand Ramesh Chand Vs. DDA and another) and, therefore, we will notice the facts of this case which lie in a narrow compass.

( 2 ) THE petitioner who claims to be the owner and in possession of structures / godowns bearing No. 27 on land out of Khasra No. 197 and situate in Revenue Estate, Village Haiderpur, Delhi, has, inter alia, pleaded in the writ petition that the land on which the godowns have been constructed has neither been acquired under any provisions of law nor the area has been declared as development Area as per Section 12 of the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (for short dda Act ). It has further been pleaded that the entire Revenue Estate of Village Haiderpur has been declared as Urban area an