VINAY KUMAR AGGARWAL vs UNION OF INDIA & ANR.

$~15 & 16 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI LPA 809/2024 VINAY KUMAR AGGARWAL .....Appellant Through: Mr. Ajay Kumar Tandon, Advocate Versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Manisha Agrawal Narain, CGSC for UOI. LPA 813/2024 SHRI SUBHASH KUMAR JAIN & ANR. .....Appellants Through: Ms. Swati Aggarwal, Advocate. Versus UNION OF INDIA & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Ritu Reniwal, SPG with Mr. Kamal Vashisht, GP for UOI Date of Decision: 21.08.2025 CORAM: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE TUSHAR RAO GEDELA JUDGEMENT TUSHAR RAO GEDELA, J: (ORAL) 1. The present Letters Patent Appeals have been filed assailing the judgment dated 31.05.2024 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Impugned Judgment) passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P.(C) 6937/2013 and W.P.(C) 13812/2023 whereby the learned Single judge held that the properties bearing Municipal nos.1/12, 1/13 and 1/14, M.M. Road (now Rani Jhansi 2. The facts germane to the present appeals, shorn of unnecessary details and culled out from the writ petition, are as under:-: a) A perpetual lease deed dated 31.10.1931 was executed between the Secretary of State for India in Council (Lessor) and Banwari Lal