ORDER :

1. With the consent of all the learned counsels appearing for the parties both these writ petitions themselves were taken up together for hearing.

2. Sri S.S. Prasad, learned senior counsel appears for the writ petitioners. He argued the matter at length. Learned senior counsel submits that the writ petitioners are the owners of the property measuring Ac.17.32 cents in Sy.Nos.385, 386 and 387. Later, the survey numbers were sub-divided as Sy.Nos.385/1, 385/2, 386/1, 386/2, 387/1 and 387/2 of Ramapuram Village. The petitioners claim to have secured their title through K. Ramaswamy Vodayar and others who granted pattas to the claimants under the Estate Abolition Act, 1948. It is stated that thereafter the petitioners have been in possession and enjoyment of the property and have developed the same. They claim to have developed a mango garden in the said area and were enjoying the property. The 2nd respondent, according to the learned senior counsel, exercised suo motu revision on the representation of a third party and cancelled the pattadar pass books granted to the petitioners and also directed the resumption of the land. According to the learned senior counsel, the patta was