N. Paul Vasanthakumar, J.

This writ appeal is directed against the order passed by the learned single Judge in W.P.No.6975 of 2000 dated 211. 2001 in and by which the proceedings under the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling & Regulation) Act, 1978, initiated against the appellants were upheld.

2. The brief facts necessary for disposal of the writ appeal are as follows,

(a) The third respondent, who owns two acres of dry land in S.F.No.130/21 at Piratiyur village, Srirangam Taluk, converted the said land into house plots and sold the same. The first appellant purchased a plot measuring 5.51 cents as per document No.4235/1991 dated 19. 1991. The second appellant, who is the wife of the first appellant, purchased two plots one measuring 5.55 cents and another 4.79 cents from the third respondent as per the document Nos.4310/94 and 768/95. The first appellants cousin sister, the third appellant herein also purchased one plot measuring 5.51 cents under document No.573/1993. All the four plots situate in S.F.No.130/21 of Piratiyur Village and the same has been later on renumbered as S.F.No.158/21 in the updating survey.

(b) The case of the appellants is that when they have taken s