S.S.SANDHAWALIA, J.

1. The true import of Section 44-A of the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 , inserted by war of Amendment by Haryana Act No. 17 of 1973 - is the significant question which falls for determination in this reference to the Full Bench in the set of 4 connected civil writ petitions. Equally at issue is some apparent discordance of views within this Court on the Point.

2. The learned counsel for the Partite, are agreed on the similarity of the facts and the identity of the legal issues in those cases and this judgment will, therefore, govern all of them. It consequently suffices to pick the matrix of facts from Civil Writ Petition No. 467 of 1982 (Nawal Singh V/s. The Administrator. Municipal Committee).

3. The Charkhi Dadri Improvement Trust. Charkhi Dadri. Prepared a scheme dated 23rd January. 1976. titled as "The Development Scheme No. IB" for constructing a Harijan Colony near Gaushala Gandhi Ashram and Delhi Narnaul Road under Sections 24 and 28 of the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 (hereinafter called the Act ). The said scheme was duly published under Section 42 (1) of the Act in the Official Gazette dated 6th February, 1976. The land of the petiti