These writ petitions are filed by a resident Welfare Association and a private Housing Company as well as several individuals to restrain the respondents from resuming the lands allegedly in possession of the petitioners and their members in Keeranatham Village coming under the Sarkar Samakulam Panchayat Union and Malumachampatti Village, Coimbatore South, Coimbatore District.

.2. In all these cases, admittedly, the survey numbers referred to by them were all pertaining to the lands allotted to the members of the Scheduled Caste community in that area, in terms of the Revenue Board Standing Order No.15, which are all conditional assignments. The condition being that the same cannot be alienated by any other person and in case of any alienation for reasons other than mentioned in the conditions of allotment, the Government has power to resume such lands.

3. These lands were otherwise known as Panchami lands or Depressed Classes lands (i.e. DC lands). It is claimed by the petitioners that there was no bar for such allotment and they have purchased the land from various persons, who inherited from the original assignees. After forming a society and after getting the opini