By the Court.—The above mentioned writ petitions have been filed challenging the orders of the various Development Authorities constituted under Section 4 of the U.P. Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act, 1973”) demanding (a) External development fee (b) Internal development fee (c )Sub-division charges (d) park fee (e) compounding fee in respect of sub-division charges, (f) inspection/supervision charges, (g) labour cess, (h) bank guarantee for the value of the cost of the land and the constructions which are required to be raised by a developer of more than 3000 sq. meters of land and above, under the Government Order dated 26.9.2011 (k) bank guarantee for rain water harvesting system to be installed in the buildings and lastly (l) Impact fee, which is being demanded by the Gorakhpur Development Authority only.

2. We have heard Sri H.N. Singh, Senior Advocate, Sri Anoop Trivedi, Sri Rajeev Kumar Saini, Sri R.K. Saini, Sri R.K. Sharma, Sri K.D. Tripathi, Sri Pankaj Kumar Shukla, Sri Neeraj Kumar Srivastava, Sri Arvind Srivastava, Sri Bheem Singh, Sri Sauraubh Tiwari, Sri Sushil Singh, Sri Vinay Khare, Sri Satish Chaturvedi, Sri Ajit