JUDGMENT :

1. This common judgment shall decide the above-noted two writ petitions which have been preferred by the petitioners, seeking to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1950, for directions in the nature of mandamus to the respondent/DDA to allot them alternative plots in lieu of the respective pieces of land occupied by them, either through their ancestors or in their own rights, or in the alternative, to award compensation to each one of them for acquisition of their land and destruction of their crops besides damage to their household belongings. Both the writ petitions raise a common question of law, with more or less identical factual narrative and can be conveniently disposed of together.

2. It is pertinent to mention that there are 85 petitioners in W.P.(C) No. 4378/2020, whereas there are 32 petitioners in W.