1. The first writ petition is filed by the Tahsildar, Mambalam-Guindy Taluk, Chennai challenging an order of the Settlement Officer, Chennai, dated 01.09.2008, wherein and by which the said Officer allowed the request of the contesting respondents 1 to 9 for the grant of ryotwari patta, excepting the lands in which Government buildings are situated in terms of Section 15(1) read with Section 12(a)(1) of the Tamil Nadu Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1948 and also in respect of the lands mentioned in Schedule A of the said order. They were granted patta and the petitioner Tahsildar was directed to change the accounts in the village land records.

2. The said writ petition was admitted on 29.10.2009. Pending the writ petition, On the same day, this court had granted an interim stay of the operation of the order passed by the 10th respondent Settlement Officer. Subsequent to the filing of the said writ petition, the Director of the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research, Guindy has also filed a writ petition in W.P.No.4110 of 2010 challenging the very same order dated 1.9.2008. That writ petition was admitted on 1.3.2010 and directed to be pos