Hon’ble Ashok Bhushan, J.—Heard Sri Keshri Nath Tripathi, Senior Advocate, assisted by Sri C.P. Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners in Writ Petition No. 23624 of 2010, Sri Anil Kumar Tiwari, Advocate for the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 41012 of 2010 and Sri B.D. Mandhyan, Senior Advocate, assisted by Sri Satish Mandhyan, Advocate for the respondents in both the writ petitions. Learned Standing Counsel has appeared for State-respondents.

2. These two writ petitions challenging same notifications have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment. Pleadings in Writ Petition No. 23624 of 2010 have been exchanged and it is sufficient to refer to pleadings of the said writ petition for deciding both the writ petitions.

3. Learned Standing Counsel has produced the original records of the State Government pertaining to land acquisition in question, which has been perused by us.

4. Brief facts of the case, as emerge from pleadings of the parties, are; The petitioners claim to be bhumidhar of Plots No. 391A and 391B measuring about 0.421 and 1.101 hectare respectively situated in village Islamganj, Pargana and Tehsil Jalalabad, district Saharanpur. Krishi Ut