represented through the legal representatives, was the owner of 5 biswa land in Khasra No. 63, Village Holambi Khurd, Delhi. Concededly, the said land was deemed essential for a public purpose by the Gaon Sabha i.e. for construction of a road in the village. Alike late Sultan Singh, there were others, who owned lands in the village, which were also taken over by the Gaon Sabha contemporaneously, in view of the same resolution of 1976. These were lands belonging to three brothers i.e. Balbir Singh, Randhir Singh and Chand Rup. On 25.10.1985 the Gaon Sabha issued a resolution recommending that the land owners (the aggregate of whose lands measured 18 biswa and was used for construction of the village road) ought to be compensated with land. It recommended that each one of the land owners i.e. late Sultan Singh, the three brothers and the individuals concerned, be given 5 biswa each (aggregating 25 biswa). This resolution was approved by the Block Development Committee on 03.02.1992. Records also disclose that sometime in 1994, the appropriate Government i.e. the Government of NCT of Delhi acted upon the approved recommendations and, in fact, allotted 15 biswa (5 biswa each to the three brothers). The resolution dated 03.02.1992, for an inexplicable reason, however, did not specifically refer to late Sultan Singh or the other third party, whose lands were taken over for the construction of the village road. Consequently, these two individuals slipped between two stools as it were and neither the
