1. All these three writ petitions are arising out of a common question to the effect that whether the mandatory provision under Section 11(5) of the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1978 (Act 24 of 1978) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) was complied with by serving notice to the petitioners and whether actual physical possession of the subject land was taken over from the petitioners and as such, all these three writ petitions have been heard together and disposed of by means of this common order.

2. In all the above three petitions, the petitioner have come forward with the same and identical prayer of quashing the proceedings initiated under Section 9(5) of the Act and Section 11(5) of the Act by the competent authority, namely, the Assistant Commissioner of Urban Land Tax, Urban Land Ceiling, the fourth respondent herein, and consequently, to direct the third respondent in all these petitions to incorporate the names of the petitioners as owners in all revenue records.

3. In W.P. No. 14099 of 2007, the subject land is to the extent of 2100 Sq. Meters in Survey No. 72/10, Peerkankaranai Village, Tambaram Taluk. The subject land was settled in favour of