1. The present writ petition has been filed in the year 2005, challenging the impugned order passed by the revisional authority/first respondent.

2. Mr. S. Parathasarathy, learned senior counsel for the petitioner while challenging the impugned order, has briefly submitted that when the petitioner entered into an oral lease agreement with one R.Murugan, the original land owner as a cultivating tenant in respect of the land comprised in Survey No. 121/3 at Pooluvampatti village, Coimbatore (South) in the year 1977, measuring to an extent of 0.87 cents agreed to pay a sum of Rs. 300/- p.m as rent along with an advance amount of Rs. 3,000/-. On the basis of the said oral lease agreement, the petitioner became a cultivating tenant and his name was also recorded in the revenue records and Adangal extracts for the Fasli years 1388 to 1390 describing him as cultivating tenant. There is a well in the above said property together with 5 H.P. Electric motor, in which, the original land owner Murugan had 1/4 share, for which, the petitioner, as a cultivating tenant paid the electricity consumption charges from the date of oral lease agreement.

3. When the matter stood as above, the origina