1. - These 7 writ petitions have been taken up today for final hearing with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties. As common questions of law and fact are raised in these writ petitions, it would be convenient to decide them by a common order.

2. The case of all the petitioners is that each one of them had applied for conversion of agricultural land under his tenancy and possession and situated within district of Bhilwara, into land meant lot residential or commercial purposes in urban area, in accordance with the provision of Rule 5 of the Rajasthan (Allotment & Conversion of Agricultural Land for Residential or Commercial Purposes in Urban Areas) Rules 1971 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Rules'). The Collector, Bhilwara, after consulting the Urban Improvement Trust, Bhilwara, passed an order on 21-6-74 allowing the requisite conversion article regularisation for the use of agricultural land for construction of residential houses by granting leases for a period of 99 years on payment of premium urban assessment etc as directed by him in his aforesaid order. In pursuance of the said order of the Collector Bhilwara, leases were duly executed by each one of the