ORDER :

These writ petitions arise out of a common grievance of the claim of the petitioner for entering of his name in the khata of the property bearing khata No.160 measuring 150’x100’, situated in K.R.Sagara, Belagola Hobli, Srirangapatna Taluk, Mandya District.

2. Writ Petition No.12222/2018 is filed by one V.Harish who claims to be the son of one Smt.Sowbhagya who had claimed that the property afore-mentioned was hers and despite the order of the Executive Officer of Taluk Panchayat, the Gram Panchayat is refusing to register/re-enter khata in the name of the petitioner which always stood, according to the petitioner, in the name of his mother.

3. Writ Petition No.9233/2021 is filed by the Krishnarajasagar Gram Panchayat challenging the very order which directed registration of khata in favour of the petitioner in Writ Petition No.12222/2018 -the companion writ petition.

4. Facts in brief as borne out from the pleadings are as follows:

The Government by two notifications dated 30.08.1979 and 30.06.1998 declared Krishnarajasagar to be a notified area and constituted Krishnarajasagar Notified Area Committee. The notification dated 30.06.1998 declared Krishnarajasagar notified area as