( 1 ) ISSUE rule.

( 2 ) BY consent of the learned Counsel for the parties, these petitions are treated as having been posted for hearing and 1 have heard the learned Counsel.

( 3 ) THE petitioners who are aggrieved by the order of the respondent/corporation have filed these writ Petitions on the ground that by the impugned order, the Corporation has adjudicated the title of the petitioners to the lands in question and accordingly that order is wholly without jurisdiction and contrary to the relevant provisions of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 (in short the Act ). The facts are not in serious controversy.

( 4 ) THE petitioners in W. P. No. 1769 of 1987 purchased the property in question from the partners of the firm known as C. N. Char and Co. represented by the Managing Partner one C. N. Char. The property was purchased under a registered sale deed dated 28-6-1984, a sum of Rs. 2,92,000/was paid as sale consideration for the aforesaid property and the petitioners were put in possession of the property as could be seen from recital No. 8 in the said sale deed. The various covenants mentioned in the said sale deed disclose that the sellers had assured