INDERMEET KAUR, J.

1. There are 21 petitioners before this Court. The averments in all the writ petitions are almost identical. Accordingly, case of Shri Chand being Writ Petition No.8307/2016 is treated as the lead case.

2. The facts which emanates from the petitions disclose that petitioner no.1 was the member of petitioner no.2 (the Delhi Peasants Co-operative Multipurpose Society Ltd.) In 1949, petitioner no.2 was allotted agricultural land on either side of the river Yamuna being 13,344 bighas of land in Village Patparganj Shamspur, Jatwara Kalan South, Gaonwala, Mohammad Khan Wala, Jhilnmil Tahirpur South, Jhilmil Tahirpur North and Murgi Khana (hereinafter referred to as the said land) on lease hold basis for a period of five years. This lease was executed between the Delhi Improvement Trust (predecessor of the DDA) and petitioner no.2. Petitioner no.2 had thereafter allotted this land to its members for cultivation. The lease was extended in 1956 and thereafter in 1961. The DDA sought cancellation of the lease deed (qua certain bighas of land on 06.10.1967 and 31.7.1967 respectively) qua petitioner no.2 requiring them to hand over the possession of the land. On 30.4