( 1 ) ALL these four petitions are directed against the common order passed by the Competent Authority at Surat (respondent No. 1 herein) on 31st march 1983 in Cases Nos. 93, 83, 25 and 26 all of 1982 as affirmed in appeal by the common order passed by the Additional Urban Land Tribunal at Ahmedabad (respondent No. 2 herein) on 11th February 1986 in Appeal Nos. Surat-94, 95, 96 and 97 all of 1983. Since the cases of all these petitioners were consolidated both by respondent No. 1 and in appeal by respondent No. 2 and since common questions of fact and law are found arising in all these petitions, I have thought it fit to dispose them of by this common judgment of mine.

( 2 ) IT appears that each petitioner filed his respective statement in the prescribed form under Sec. 6 (1) of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 (the Act for brief) with respect to the properties held by him within the urban agglomeration of Surat as on 17th February 1976. It may be mentioned at this stage that the petitioners of Special Civil Application Nos. 1982, 1983 and 1984 all of 1987 are brothers. They claimed their shares in some common properties. It appears that these three brot