The petitioners herein are said to be the persons, who have obtained the lease on transfer from the original lessee and are aggrieved by the action of the respondents, rejecting their application for grant of building permission. During the pendency of the writ petition certain members of the family have died and substitution of legal representatives has been ordered.

2. Brief facts giving rise to filing of present writ petition are that the land measuring 2.60 acres known as Bungalow No. 5 situated at Theater Road bearing survey No. 13, Cantonment, Jabalpur, was alloted way back on 28-3-1930 to the erstwhile lessee Shri C. F. Billby. The terms and conditions mentioned in the said lease is available on record as Annexure P-l. Later on the said property was purchased by registered sale deed by Shri J. N. Seth and the petitioners herein Shri S. L. Seth, Shri K. K. Seth and Shri V. K. Seth (since deceased) and other members of family namely Shri J. M. Seth, Shri K. L. Seth and late Smt. Indira Devi Seth. Apparently such purchase was made with the sanction of the competent authority of respondents, therefore the names of these persons were duly mutated in the General Land Regi