SATISH CHANDRA, J. :- These three special appeals raise common questions. They are directed against a common judgment dismissing three writ petitions. In the writ petitions, the appellants had challenged the acquisition of land in execution of improvement schemes framed by the Meerut Improvement Trust and continued by the Avas Evam Vikas Parishad.

2. An improvement scheme called "Scheme No. 3 - Housing Accommodation and Street Scheme lying between Meerut Garhmukteshwar and Meerut Hapur Roads" was framed by the Meerut Improvement Trust. Notice of this scheme as required by Section 36 of the U. P. Town Improvement Act, 1919 was published in the State Gazette of 7th January, 1967. The area comprised in the scheme included land in four villages, all situate outside the municipal limits of Meerut. The notice invited objections. Ninety nine persons filed fortyfive objections. The Chairman of the Improvement Trust visited the area involved in the scheme and heard oral representations from various groups of landholders in the area. The appellants' case is that they had no knowledge of these proceeding and they could not either file objections or make representations to the Chairma