Hon’ble Sunil Ambwani, J.—Heard Shri B.D. Mandhyan, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Sanjeev Kumar; Shri Salil Kumar Rai, Shri Uma Nath Pandey; Smt. Sarita Shukla and others for the petitioners. Shri Satish Chaturvedi, Additional Advocate General assisted by Shri M.C. Chaturvedi, Chief Standing Counsel, Shri M.C. Tripathi, Additional Chief Standing Counsel and Shri J.N. Maurya, Standing Counsel have appeared for the State respondents. Shri Shashi Nandan, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Ramendra Pratap Singh has appeared for ‘Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority’ (in short, ‘YEIDA’). Shri Navin Sinha, Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Yashwant Varma has appeared for Jaypee Infratech Ltd.

2. In these writ petitions, the land owners, bhumidhars, lessees and persons having variety of rights over the subject land, have challenged the notifications issued by the Government of U.P. under sub-section (1) of Section 4, applying the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, ‘the Act) for acquisition of the notified land for public purpose namely for the, ‘land for development’, under ‘Yamuna Expressway Project’ through ‘Yam