( 1 ) RULE. WITH the consent of the counsel for the parties, the writ petition is taken up for disposal.

( 2 ) BY this writ petition, petition seeks a mandamus, restraining the respondents from interfering, in any manner, with his possession of Plot No. R-262 and R-263, situated at Ramesh Park, New delhi, earlier numbers being Plot numbers 46-47 of j Block, situated in Khasra No. 57/13, Khureji Khas, Delhi. The immediate provocation for the petitioner to file the writ petition was that officials of the Corporation, in the month of July, 1998, sought to restrain the etitioner from carrying out any construction on the said plot.

( 3 ) PETITIONER claims that on enquiry being made by the SDM and other officials, he informed them that he was the owner of the plot and showed them the documents of title. Petitioner further claims that the municipal officials, later on, threatened him that they would remove the barbed wiring and fencing put up by the petitioner.

( 4 ) RESPONDENTS case, on the other hand, is that the said land was acquired vide Award No. 22/70-71 and, as such, the land vested in the state and the petitioner, even if he purchased the said land from the previ