JUDGMENT.-The property in dispute is an unenfranchised minor inam in a village called “Kurumbirai” in Chingleput District comprised in T.D. No. 1034. On the abolition of the Minor Inams under the Tamil Nadu Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 (XXX of 1963) the lands stood transferred to the Government and vested in them with effect from 15th February, 1965. Nobody had preferred any petition for grant of any ryotwari patta for this land as required by the rules framed under the said Act. An enquiry regarding the grant of patta was, therefore, taken up suo motu by the Settlement Tahsildar on the basis of the materials gathered by the field staff to decide whether anybody is entitled to ryotwari patta. A notice was accordingly issued to a mosque at Salavakkam Village and the notice was served on mulla Sulaiman Sahib. In the enquiry before the Settlement Tahsildar he deposed that the said land was granted for the services of mulla in the mosque at Salavakkam and the services were being rendered. He claimed patta in his name and filed a petition therefor. The karnam of the village was examined and he deposed that the suit land was a religious minor inam and gr

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