JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Shri Ramesh Chandra Singh, Senior Advocate for the petitioners in these writ petitions and Shri Tariq Maqbool Khan for the Gaon Sabha.

2. These writ petitions arise out of proceedings under Section 67 of the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, for eviction of the petitioners from separate areas of plot no. 188 situated in village Pachrukhiya, Tehsil Padrauna, District Kushinagar, which is recorded in the revenue records as 'Banjar'. Separate orders have been passed for eviction of the petitioners and on their consequential appeals, dismissing them. However, since the submissions made are common, the petitions are being decided by a common order.

3. It would be relevant to note that proceedings for eviction of the petitioners appear to have been instituted, consequent to directions issued by the High Court in a Public Interest Litigation.

4. In all the petitions, the contention of learned counsel is that petitioners are agricultural labourers and since they are occupants of land which is not reserved for a public purpose and is not governed by the provisions of Section 132 of the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act or Section 77 of the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, they we