Challenging an order of the first respondent the Revenue Divisional Officer, Madurai, made in Na.Ka.N 5363/99-L dated 35. 2000, and the consequent order of the second respondent bearing No.Na.Ka.N.44279/2001 G2 dated 21. 2003 in Revision Petition No.11/2001 G2, and seeking to quash the same, the petitioner has brought forth this writ petition.

2. The affidavit in support of the petition and the counter affidavit by the third respondent are perused. The Court heard the learned Counsel on either side.

3. The case of the petitioner in short, is that the petitioners father was granted patta in respect of the land measuring 0.19.5 hectares in Survey No.142/3 B2 in Kovilkurivithurai Village, Vadipatti Taluk. Even the father and thereafter, the petitioner have been in continuous possession and enjoyment of the property. On 23. 1996, the Deputy Tahsildar, Vadipatti, issued orders deleting the name of the petitioners father from the patta register, and he also granted a joint patta in favour of the third respondent and her children. An objection was raised by the petitioner to the District Collector on 23. 1998, who forwarded the petition to the Tahsildar. Consequent upon the s