Hon’ble Ashok Bhushan, J.—These eight writ petitions have been filed by the farmers of Tahsil Bara and Tahsil Karchana of district Allahabad challenging acquisition of their agricultural land for establishment of two thermal power plants; one at Tahsil Bara and one at Tahsil Karchana.

2. Writ petition No. 32270 of 2010 Awadhesh Pratap v. State of U.P. and Writ Petition No. 1236 of 2011 relate to land acquisition for establishment of thermal power plant at Tahsil Bara, and other six writ petitions being writ petition No. 3689 of 2010 Anand Prakash and another v. State of U.P. and five other writ petitions relate to land acquisition pertaining to establishment of thermal power plant at Tahsil Karchana. In writ petition No. 32270 of 2010, Awadhesh Pratap v. State of U.P., counter-affidavit, supplementary counter-affidavit, rejoinder affidavit and supplementary rejoinder-affidavit have been exchanged between the parties which is being treated as the leading writ petition. With regard to writ petitions relating to Tahsil Karchana, the reference of pleadings and facts in writ petition No. 3689 of 2010, Anand Prakash v. State of U.P. are sufficient to decide the writ petition rela