1. The prayer in the Writ Petition is one for issue of a writ of certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records of the first respondent in proceedings No. A3/4878/79 culminating in the Notification No. VI (1)/743/82 dated 2.7.1982 and published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette (Part VI Section 1) on 14.7.1982 and the consequent notification No. VI(1)/844/2 dated 29.7.1982 published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette (Part VI Section 1) on 11.8.1982 and to quash the same and consequently release the lands in question belonging to the petitioner from the purview of the Tamil Nadu Urban Land Ceiling Act, 1978. The first respondent is the Government of Tamil Nadu, the second respondent is the Assistant Commissioner of Urban Land Tax, Egmore, Madras and the third respondent is one Shanmugam. The petitioner died later and his legal representatives have been impleaded as petitioners 2 to 6. The fourth respondent got impleaded as a party to the writ petition on a petition of his own in W.M.P. No. 22505 of 1992 by order dated 16.10.1992.

2. The property, which is the subject matter of the impugned proceedings forming part of the larger extent of property belonged to one Th