SANJIV KHANNA, J.:

1. This common judgment will dispose of the present intra court appeals filed by occupants of shops/office spaces in Hotel Ashoka, Hotel Janpath and Hotel Samrat allotted to them by the respondent-India Tourism Development Corporation (hereinafter referred to as ITDC, for short). By the impugned judgment under appeal dated 1st July, 2008, learned Single Judge has dismissed the writ petitions filed by the appellants challenging the action of ITDC to initiate proceedings under Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as Act, for short) and for direction to ITDC to renew the license arrangement with them.

2. The appellants herein have been in occupation of shops/office spaces as per details set out in para 4 of the impugned judgment, which are not being repeated for the sake of brevity.

3. The case made out by the appellants before us and the learned single Judge was that ITDC has been renewing license deeds from time to time on enhanced license fee after increasing the last paid license fees by 10-30%. It is stated that no uniform policy was/is followed and the license fee of different shops/office spaces was/i