K.S. Bakthavatsalam, J.

1. The petitioner has come up to this Court praying for the issuance of a writ of certiorarified mandamus to call for the records of the first respondent culminating in the issuance of Notification Ms. No.VI(1)/951/88/(D2(R)10970/87), dated 17.10.1988 reclassifying the land use of the vacant lands measuring about 7 acres comprised in Survey Nos. 46(part), 47 and 49 of Uror Village, Besant Nagar from primary residential zone to 'institutional zone' and to quash the same and consequently direct the fourth respondent not to proceed with the proposed construction of an office complex in the said land.

2. The petitioner association is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1975 formed for the purposes of protecting the Welfare of the residents in the Besant Nagar Kalakshetra colony area in Madras. The Besant Nagar and its vicinity have been originally planned as a Primary residential locality and the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority, the first respondent herein, as well as the Corporation of Madras, the second respondent herein, have been sanctioning building plans on this basis. The infrastructure in that area such as sewerage, dr