JUDGMENT :

(PER : HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. VIKRAM NATH)

1. This group of petitions has been preferred under Article 226 of the Constitution of India by erstwhile landowners of different parcels of land said to have been acquired by the State for the benefit of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (for short “GIDC”) sometime in the year 1987. Total land acquired was 1347 Hectares 88 Aare and 44 sq.mtrs. It was situated in four villages. The details of the same are provided below :

2. Special Civil Application No.11931 of 2019 is taken up as the lead matter for recording of brief facts. The reliefs claimed by means of this petition is firstly to issue a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents not to demolish properties in question, not to destroy the standing crops, not to destroy or cut 1400 palm trees and other trees standing in the land in question and not to destroy the tabela for buffaloes and cows of the pe