By the Court.—In these connected writ petitions, the purchasers, owners and bhumidhars of the agricultural land in District Ghaziabad, have challenged the six notifications issued by the State of Uttar Pradesh under Section 4 (1)/17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (in short, the Act) all dated 16.10.2004, and the six notifications under Section 6/17 of the Act of various dates between 5.9.2005 to 31.10.2005 acquiring 499.446 hectares, equivalent to 1234.131 acres of land in village Sadarpur-I in district Ghaziabad, (area 269.004 hectares, vide notification under Section 6/17 dated 13.10.2005); Sadarpur II, (area 45.495 hectares, notification under Section 6/17 dated 5.9.2005); Rasoolpur Yakootpur, (area 68.537 hectares, notification dated 28.10.2005); Mahiuddinpur-Mainapur, (area 45.580 hectares, notification dated 5.9.2005); Naglapath, (area 67.179 hectare notification dated 28.10.2005); Morth (area 3.643 hectares notification, dated 28.10.2005). The Ghaziabad Development Authority (in short, ‘the GDA’) on the basis of the documents produced on record, alleges that the possession of the acquired land in respect of Sadarpur-I and Sadarpur-II was taken over on 18.11.2006,