B.S. Chauhan, J.-The present Special appeals have been filed under Section 18 of the Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 against the Judgment and order dated 10-1-1997 passed in a bunch of forty-three S.B. Civil Writ Petitions treating S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 469/1996 (Bheru Lal v. State of Rajasthan) as the main writ petition. All the said writ petitions have been dismissed by the common Judgment . Being aggrieved and dissatisfied, all the petitioners therein have preferred the special appeals and the same are heard together and disposed of by the common Judgment .

2. The facts involved in these cases are not in dispute. The respondent-State sought for compulsory acquisition of about 4800 Bighas of land for the purpose of Plan Development, i.e., constructing residential houses in the revenue estate of village Bhuvana, tehsil Girwa, district Udaipur, under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter called as “the Act”). The subsequent developments have been as follows :--22.1990) 30.3.1990) 4.1990)

The notifications under 5. 4(1) of the Act 21-2-90 were published in the local newspapers. 20.5.1991Gram Panchayat, Bhuvana filed Writ Petition No.2255/9