By the Court.—These four writ petitions have been filed challenging the acquisition of agricultural plots of petitioners situate in village Biraundi Chakrasenpur, district Gautam Budh Nagar.

2. A counter-affidavit has been filed on behalf of respondent No. 3 in Writ Petition No. 52178 of 2011. All the writ petitions raise same questions of fact and law, hence they have been heard together and are being decided with the consent of parties.

3. For deciding all the writ petitions, it shall be sufficient to refer to the pleadings in Writ Petition No. 52178 of 2011.

4. An order was passed by Hon’ble the Chief Justice on 14th September, 2011 for listing Writ Petition No. 52178 of 2011 alongwith Writ Petition No. 37443 of 2011 (Gajraj and others v. State of U.P. and others).

5. Brief facts giving rise to Writ Petition No. 52178 of 2011 are; the petitioners claim to be bhumidhar of plots situate in village Biraundi Chakrasenpur, Pargana Dadri, Tahsil Sadar, District Gautam Budh Nagar. A notification dated 18th December, 2001 under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) was issued proposing to acquire 46.2933 hectares of land for the planned