RAJU, J.

The above appeal has been filed against the order of a learned single Judge dated 9-3-1988 whereunder the writ petition filed by the appellant seeking to quash the order of the first respondent dated 12-4-1980 came to be dismissed.

2. The appellant filed an application before the third respondent under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Lands Record of Tenancy Rights Act, 1968 and the rules made thereunder to get himself recorded as a cultivating tenant in respect of an estent of 4.83 acres of land belonging to the fourth respondent. By an order dated 5-5-1975 the third respondent ordered to register the name of the appellant as the cultivating tenant, which on appeal by the fourth respondent before the second respondent came to be set aside by order dated 24-12-1975. The appellate authority, while setting aside the order of the third respondent, remitted the matter back to the third respondent for fresh enquiry and disposal.

3. In the mean time, the fourth respondent filed O. S. No. 325 of 1974 on the file of the District Munsif, Kumbakonam against the appellant praying for permanent injunction contending that the appellant who was merely a pannai agen