Common Order: (J.A.K. Sampathkumar, J.)

These writ petitions are filed challenging the notification issued by the Government on 29. 1994 vide G.O.Ms.No.244 of 1994 (Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department) and also challenging the consequential acts pursuant to issuance of the said G.O. and for praying to quash the same.

.2. The common plea in both the writs are as follows:

.The land presently known as Karpaga Nagar was initially owned by the fourth respondent and extent of 73 acres and 60 cents of land in R.S.No.120 to 126, 130 to 133, 176/1 and 178/2 was owned by the fourth respondent in the erstwhile Tallakulam Town Panchayat, Madurai District. The fourth respondent formed a layout with an object of selling their lands in survey Numbers referred above as house sites. The entire extent was divided into 832 plots. The Director of Town Planning, Madras gave approval for the said layout vide LPMR 1/75. These lands were under the jurisdiction of Tallakulam Town Panchayat before they were merged with the Madurai Corporation in dated 30.1.1994.

3. The approval was granted subject to the condition that an extent of 2.52 acres comprised in R.S.No.120 to 126, 13