JUDGMENT :

Sangeeta Chandra, Brij Raj Singh, JJ.

1. We have heard Sri R. S. Pande, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Ankit Pande alongwith Shri Manish Mani Sharma, Shri Mohammad Yusuf Siddiqui, Ms. Pooja Devi, Shri Virendra Bhatt, Shri Gajendra Yadav and Shri Manoj Kumar Gupta, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in all these writ petitions learned counsel for the petitioners, Sri Sudeep Seth, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Atul Kumar Dwivedi, learned counsel for the N.T.P.C. and Sri Manish Mishra, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State Respondents.

2. All the four writ petitions have been taken up together as they chellenge a common order of Resumption passed by the Commisioner Faizabad Division, dated 21.02.2013 and related to land recorded as Category 6(2) Abadi and Para A- 124 of the Uttar Pradesh Land Records Manual in three villages of Salahpur Rajor, Hussainpur and Hasanpur Sudhana in Tehsil- Tanda, District- Ambedkar Nagar. The said land has been resumed for the purpose of setting up second unit of 660 Megawatts of Tanda Thermal Power Plant by National Thermal Power Corporation (hereinafter referred to as NTPC).

3. For the convenience of