Common Order:

In all these cases, by the respective orders, the District Collector directed the petitioners concerned to remit amounts levied towards the silica sand and granite blocks allegedly quarried from lease hold as well as non-leasehold areas with further direction that the non-compliance of the said direction would attract the proceedings under the Revenue Recovery Act to realise the above said amounts. Out of these writ petitions, W.P. (MD) Nos.7324 and 7325 of 2006 are relating to granite quarry at Madurai District, while W.P.No.26650 of 2005 relates to silica sand quarry at Gummidipoondi area.

2. The impugned orders proceeded on the basis that while the writ petitioner in W.P.No.26650 of 2005 was granted lease to quarry silica sand over an extent of 28. 5 hectares in respect of survey Nos.84/2, 85 and 88 (patta lands) in Elavur village, Gummidipoondi taluk for a period of 20 years viz., 6. 1997 to 6. 2017, during the course of inspection it was found that the lessee indulged in illicit mining of silica sand in survey Nos.77/1A, 77/2, 77/3 and 77/4 of Elavur village, for which permission was not granted. In respect of the said writ petitioner, the total amount