( 1 ) SRI Dinesh Dwivedi has appeared for the petitioners in Civil Misc. Writ petition Nos. 4255 and 4189 of 1998 while in rest of the writ petitions, Sri Pankaj Mittal has appeared for the petitioner, Sri Pradeep Kumar, Advocate has appeared for the respondents in each of the petitions. Since in all these writ petitions, common questions of law and fact are involved, the same have been consolidated and have been heard together.

( 2 ) ). The admitted facts are that the Noida Industrial Development Authority (for short GNIDA), is a statutory body which gave an advertisement in local papers on 28-9-1996 inviting applications for allotment of land from Group Housing Societies registered in Uttar Pradesh. The petitioners and certain other societies, including I. A. S. Officers Society (Green Wood Sahkari Awas Samiti Limited) and M/s. Diby and Beverages Society Ltd. applied to GNIDA for allotment of land in response to the aforesaid advertisement. After considering the applications, GNIDA finally accepted in all eight societies applications, including the petitioner societies as well as the aforementioned I. A. S. Officers Society and M/s. Dibyani Beverages Society for r