UMAPATHI K Vs. ADDITIONAL COLLECTOR APPELLATE AUTHORITY THANJAVUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE writ petitions are filed to issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of a writ, calling for the records of the first respondent in his proceedings No.K.A.P.8/90/N5, dated 13.7.19991 and quash the same.

(2.) IN these writ petitions the writ petitioner has chosen to question the orders passed by the first respondent dated 13.7.1991 in K.A.P.No.8/90/N5 wherein the first respondent had decided that the fourth respondent in both the writ petitions are eligible to get patta under the provisions of Tamil Nadu Occupants of Kudieruppu (Conferment of Ownership) Act 40 of 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the Act).

(3.) ON the other hand learned counsel appearing for the respondents argued that the authorities below have believed the evidence of the Panchayat Board President and the Village Administrative officer and rightly held that the fourth respondent in both the writ petitions are entitled to get a patta and that they were in possession of the lands as on the crucial date.