1. The petitioners have filed this writ petition for the issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to deliver possession of the property in T.S.No.301/3 Municipal Ward No. 13, Revenue Ward No. 3 in Erode town Ward B, Block 2, T.S.No.51/2.

2. The petitioners are the owners of the said property of an extent of 14740 Sq.ft. Originally, the said property belongs to their father, who leased out the site to the Burma Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India limited for a period of twenty years from 1.10.1958. The lease came to an end by efflux of time by 30.9.1978. By that time, the Central Government enacted Burma Shell Acquisition of Undertakings in India Act, (hereinafter referred to as the Act). As per the notification under the Act, the rights of the Burma Shell Oil Storage and Distribution Company came to be vested with the first respondent the Bharath Petroleum Corporation Limited.

3. As the period of lease expired by efflux of time, the petitioners' father filed a writ petition W.P.No.4730 of 1979 before this Court for the relief of recovery of possession. Pending the said writ petition, the father of the petitioners died and the petitioners he