THE CHIEF JUSTICE:

1. This Writ Appeal is against the order of Padmanabhan, J. who saw no merit in the Writ Petition filed by the appellant, who was a member and President of Agaram Village Panchayat and who sought for a Writ of Certiorari to call for the records relating to the order of the District Munsif, Cuddalore, in O.P. No. 3 of 1976, which order he passed as a statutory functionary under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1958, (hereinafter referred to as the Act) and to quash the same.

2. The relevant facts are as follows:—The Divisional Development Officer, Chidambaram, who is the first respondent herein, caused a memo to be served on the appellant stations that under S. 28(1) and (2) of the Act, the appellant had become disqualified to be a member, and in consequence to be the President, of the Panchayat in question, since he had not paid the house tax and the vehicle tax for the years 1973-1974 and 1974-1975 with in the time prescribed for such payment. The appellant filed the original petition in question before the District Munsif, Cuddalore, who is the statutory judicial authority within the meaning of S. 28 (2) of the Act, to decide the question whether the me