JUDGMENT :

RAJESH BHARDWAJ.J

1. All the aforementioned three petitions have been filed by the petitioners under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a Writ of Certiorari/Mandamus for quashing, the notification dated 21.4.1987 (Annexure P-1) and 20.4.1988 (Annexure P-2) issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (herein after to be referred to as the Act) respectively and the letter dated 2.5.2013 along with letter dated 29.04.2013 rejecting the claim of the petitioners and further declaring the action of the respondent authorities in not releasing the land of the petitioners from acquisition alleging to be illegal, arbitrary, malafide and violative of the provisions of the Act and Article 14 of the Constitution of India. Primarily, the main issue involved in all these three petitions is the same except some minor factual differences in the measurement and location of the area of the land acquired of the respective petitioners. However, for brevity the facts have been taken from CWP-16346-2013 (Balbir Kumar and others Vs. State