K.A.Swami. C.J.

These writ petitions are referred to a Division Bench by the learned single Judge by the common order dated 11. 1995, having regard to the question of law involved. The writ appeals are preferred against the order dated 11. 1995 passed in the writ miscellaneous petitions, refusing to grant interim order. Therefore, the writ appeals and writ petitions are heard together.

2. We may also state one more fact that when those writ petitions were posted along with the batch of other writ petitions wherein the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Act,1994 (Act 21 of 1994) (hereinafter referred to ‘as the Act’) and the validity of certain provisions of the rules contained in the Tamil Nadu Panchayat Rules, 1995 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Rules’), these writ petitions came to be separated by a special order in view of the fact that in these writ petitions, no provision of the act and the rules was challenged. Hence, these writ petitions and the writ appeals are separately heard and decided by this common judgment.

3. Petitioners 2 to 52 in W.P. No.13205 of 1995 and petitioners 2 to 7 in W.P. No. 132506 of 1995 are resident and