1. The petitioners have filed this writ petition praying to issue a writ of certiorarified mandamus to call for the records of the second respondent dated 11.8.1992 made in O.Mu. 5621/92 and to quash the same and direct the respondents to issue patta to the petitioners herein under the Tamil Nadu Leaseholds Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari Act, 1963 in respect of the petitioners land bearing S. No. 166 of Pallavaram in an extent of 1.54 acres.

2. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, the petitioners would submit that they jointly purchased the rights of the lands in R.S. No. 166 measuring 1.54 acres which had been originally leased out by the Government of India in favour of one Haji C. Hussain Saheb under a lease deed dated 18.12.1915 registered as document No. 222/1916 at the Office of the Registrar, Chengalpet; that the said lease hold land was subsequently taken over by the firm of M/s. Khizar Mohammed & Company and the said firm was in enjoyment of the land and the superstructures thereon uninterruptedly; that later one Maimooma Ammal of Adiram-pattinam wrote to the Cantonment Board on 3.2.1957 as to whether there would be any objection since