JUDGMENT

INDRAJIT MAHANTY, J.

1. The present batch of writ applications has come to be filed by the petitioner Charidesa Krusak Surakhya Sangha and several land losers seeking to challenge the validity of the acquisition of land made by the Industrial Development Corporation of Odisha (hereinafter referred to as the IDCO) for the purpose of setting up a thermal power plant by M/s. KVK Nilachal Pvt. Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the KVK).

2. At the commencement of hearing, we requested the learned counsel for the respective parties in this batch of cases to make out categories on the issues raised and to bunch the various cases in each such category. Accordingly, on the consent of the learned counsel representing the various parties, four categories were made in the following manner. (The respective cases which fall under each category are indicated under each head).

Category - I

Challenge to Land Acquisition Proceedings undertaken by the State Government for acquiring the land in four villages namely, Rahangol, Dalua, Khanduali and Kandarei, P.S. Gurudijhatia, Tahasil Athagarh, District Cuttack on the requisition made by IDCO for the purpose of setting up of a thermal power plant