K. VEERASWAMI, C. J. :- What is the effect of enfranchisement of what is known as the Pudukottai Inams on the tenure as such? That is the common question in these petitions to quash the notification of the State Government in G. O. Ms. No. 1612 Revenue dated 24-5-1965 designating a number of inam villages specified therein as New Inam Estate under Section 2 (9) of the Madras Inam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 (Madras Act XXVI of 1963). The notification was issued in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 1 (4) of the Act. It appointed the 1st July 1965 as the date on which the provisions of the Act, other than the sections which had already come into force, should come into force in the Pudukottai Inam Estates specified in column (3) of the Schedule to the notification. Nanjur alias Namanarayasamadram, an Inam village is one of the items in the schedule. The petitioner in W. P. 604 of 1967, which is taken as typical of

the others, claims to own absolutely and to be in exclusive possession of about 12 acres of freehold tenure lands, as he calls them, (wet and dry) in the village of Nanjur, in erstwhile Pudukottai State. He, as he says, purch