As the issues involved and the respondents in all these writ petitions are one and the same, these writ petitions are disposed of by this common order. Heard both sides.

2. The facts involved in these writ petitions are as follows:

The petitioners are related to each other and originally they owned lands jointly comprised in S.No.268 in Tarnbaram Village, Saidapet Taluk, Chengalput MGR District and the same was partitioned by them on 7.11.1979 and that in the said partition, they were allotted 56 cents of lands each comprised in S.Nos.268/4, 268/3A and 268/2 and 268/5 towards their respective shares and that as the respondents felt that the lands in the possession of the petitioners exceeded the ceiling limit, they initiated proceedings by issuing notifications under Section 11(3) of the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act, 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) in C.Nos.4301/94-C, 4300/94-C and 4299/94-C published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette dated 30.9.1998 and hence, for quashing the said notifications dated 30.9.1998, these writ petitions have been filed.

3. The learned senior counsel for the petitioners has submitted that nevertheless the proce