All the above mentioned 37 writ petitions were heard analogously since identical facts and points of law were involved in all the cases. Affidavit in opposition were filed on behalf of respondent Nos. 1,2&3 in WP(C) 275/2016 and WP(C) 374/2016 and the same were considered as the affidavit in opposition on behalf of all respondents in all the cases. The matter was taken up for disposal at the admission stage itself.

2. Heard learned counsel, Mr. P Roy Barman for the petitioners and learned Addl. GA, Ms AS Lodh as well as Mr. J Majumdar for the respondent Nos. 1,2&3. No representation on behalf of respondent No.4.

3. According to the petitioners, 84 families which consist the petitioners/in some cases their predecessors, after partition of India, being evicted from East Pakistan, took shelter in the princely state of Tripura in or around 1950 and they settled near Jakson Gate and Kaman Chowmuni areas of Agartala and thereafter, as per instructions of the then Maharaja of Tripura, those 84 families were shifted to the vacant land in the Northern side of Gangail Road and southern side of Netaji Subhash road at Agartala. Those families, including the petitioners/their predecessors