The prayer is for a certiorari to call for the records relating to the land acquisition proceedings in award dated 1. 1995 in Reference No.5/95 on the file of the third respondent and quash the same in so far as it relates to the petitioners land comprised in S.Nos.14/1 and 14/2, Veli Semmandalam Village, Cuddalore Taluk, South Arcot District.

2. The case as set out in the affidavit, in support of the writ petition is as follows:

The petitioner is the owner of the two items mentioned supra and he is cultivating double crops of paddy, groundnut, and tapiacio in the said lands. Every year the petitioner has been reclaiming and spending husge sums for the lands by adopting scientific method for improving the yield. The lands were sought to be acquired by the Government for the formation of neighbourhood scheme. Sec.4(1) Notification was published on 111. 1991. Sec.6 declaration was approved on 212. 1992 and was published in the Tamil Nadu Gazette on 30.12.1992. The petitioner challenged Sec,6 declaration stating that it was published beyond the period of one year vide W.P.No.20088 of 1993 and in W.M.P.No.31375 of 1993 stay of dispossession alone was granted on 11. 1993. The