JUDGMENT :

SURESHWAR THAKUR, J.

1. Since all the writ petitions (supra) make a common challenge to the constitutionality of the impugned notification(s), wherebys it omitted Section 2(g)(i), as earlier thereto became carried in the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961 (for short ‘the Act of 1961’), therefore, all the writ petitions (supra) are liable for being decided through a common verdict.

2. In CWP-22738-2016, the petitioners seek the quashing of the notification dated 23.7.2007 issued by the Government of Punjab, enacting the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 2007 (Punjab Act No. 6 of 2007) (for short ‘the Act of 2007’), vide which Section 4 2 -A of the Act has been inserted in the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 (for short ‘the Act of 1948’), and also seek the quashing of the notification dated 27.4.1976. The petitioners also seek the quashing of the order dated 28.12.2015 whereby the claim of the petitioners with regard to the makings of changes in the revenue record regarding their ownership, thus has been dismissed.

3. In the petition (supra), it is averred that the instant pe