K.M. Joseph, J.

These batch of Writ Petitions raise common questions and hence they are disposed of by this common Judgment. All the petitioners seek a writ of mandamus, order or direction in the nature thereof, directing the official respondents to provide police protection to them to ward off encroachments on their properties.

2. The petitioner is an elected Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Kalpetta. Briefly put, the case of the petitioner is as follows:

Petitioner is a planter. The present Wayanad District and other parts formerly constituting the erstwhile Malabar area were under the administration and management of the Madras Government. During 1940, the Madras Government formulated a scheme, called more food campaign to encourage the people to cultivate more lands. The grandfather of the petitioner, a cultivator was approached by the concerned Officials offering to give the property in the possession of the petitioner herein for improving and converting the same into an agricultural land. These lands were handed over in the year 1940 and were improved and converted into an excellent garden land consisting of various fruit bearing trees. During 1958, t