Judgment

V. Gopala Gowda, J.

Leave granted.

2. The appellants-land owners have filed the present group of appeals challenging the common impugned judgment and order dated 16.6.2014 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur, in Writ Appeal Nos.379, 380, 381, 382, 389 and 393 of 2013 wherein the High Court upheld the order dated 15.4.2013 passed by the learned single Judge of the High Court of Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, upholding the validity of the Town Development Scheme, namely, ‘Kamal Vihar Township Development Scheme No. 4’ (for short ‘the KVTDS’).

3. The facts of the case are stated hereunder:-

The appellants herein are the landowners of portions of land (with some construction thereon) situated in the villages Dumartarai, Tikrapara, Boriya Khurd, Deopuri and Dunda of Raipur District in Chhattisgarh State. The respondent No.2-Raipur Development Authority (RDA) was established under Section 38(1) of the M.P. (C.G.) Nagar Thatha Gram Nivesh Adhiniyam, 1973 (for short ‘the Act of 1973’). The KVTDS was planned by the respondent No.2 -RDA while discharging its functions under Section 38(2) of the Act of 1973. Though the KVTDS initially started as a small Tow