INDERMEET KAUR, J.

1. The petitioner is the Kamla Market Transporters Association. The petition has been filed through the President of the Association.

2. Kamla Market had been conceived in the year 1951 as a commercial market to rehabilitate and provide means of sustenance to the displaced persons/migrants/refugees. In 1979, the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Urban Development transferred the administrative rights along with complete control of the said market to the Land and Development Office, Directorate of Estates and Central Public Works Department. In consonance with the decision of the Cabinet of the year 1978, leasehold rights were to be granted in favour of licensees occupying shops at Kamla Market. The petitioner association was a part of this program. Lease deeds in the year 1980 to 1990 were executed in favour of different members of the petitioner association by the Land and Development Office/respondent No. 2. In the year 1992, conversion program of leasehold to freehold was launched in Delhi. Fee was to be charged as per the size of the plot and the notified rates of the land which had been promulgated by the L & DO. Submission is that on 22.05.2001, a deci