( 1 ) THIS is a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution seeking the issue of a Writ of Certi-orari for removing to this Court the records in I. A. No. 117 of 1952 in A. S. No. 456 of 1950 on the file of the Estates Abolition Tribunal, Vijayanagaram and quashing the same. 2. The petitioner is the Executive Officer of the temple of Sri Krutha Kritya Rameswaraswami Vanu situate in Gudimoola Rameswaram, a village in Rajole Taluk in East Godavari District. The temple owns an inam known as Gudimoola Khandrika. After the Madras Estates Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari Act, 1948 (Madras Act XXVI of 1948) was passed, the Seltlement Officer, Vijayawada initiated proceedings suo motu under Section 9 of the Act to determine whether the Khandrika aforesaid is an inam estate as defined in Section 2 (7) of the Act. It was contended on behalf of the Devasthanam that the grant was neither of a whole village, nor of a named village, that it consisted only of part of the village of Rameswaram and that therefore it was not an estate under Section 3 (2) (d) of the Madras Estates Land Act (I of 1908 ). The 1st respondent congested the position taken up by the Devasthanam an