JUDGMENT :

PANKAJ MITHAL, J

1. All the above four writ petitions relate to the same land acquisition proceedings wherein in substance, the petitioners allege that the land acquisition proceedings stand vitiated on account of several illegalities basically for the reason that the proceedings were initiated under the J&K Land Acquisition Act Samvat 1990 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’), which stood repealed vide J&K Re-organization Act 2019 (hereinafter referred to the ‘Re-Organization Act’) w.e.f. 31st October 2019 and therefore no award could have been passed under Section 11 of the said Act.

2. In the first writ petition WP (C) No. 1993/2019 filed by Ghulam Mohammad and 20 others (later petitioner No.1 being substituted by Khalid Jehangir Bhat & Ors), the petitioners have prayed for the following reliefs:-

(i) Writ, Order or direction in the nature of Certiorari for quashing Notification No. 03 of 2017 dated 02.05.2017, issued by Collector Land Acquisition (ACR) Pulwama under Section 4 (i) of J&K Land Acquisition Act (forming Annexure-I to this writ petition), Notification No. 32 of 2018 dated 17/05/2018 issued by Collector Land Acquisition (ACR) Pulwama (forming Annexure-II to