The petitioner is an association registered under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975, with registration No.24 of 2015. It is said to consist of members, who are lessees of shops owned by the Punjai Puliyampati Municipality (hereinafter referred to as the respondent Municipality).

2. The petitioner association seeks for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to quash the auction-cum-tender notification issued by the respondent Municipality, dated 27.11.2015, by which the respondent Municipality bas brought for auction, the leasehold right in respect of 71 shops owned by the respondent Municipality within its Municipal limits. The petitioner also seek for a consequential direction to the respondent Municipality to follow G.O.Ms.No.92, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, dated 03.07.2007.

3. Mr.R.Gandhi, learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the members of the petitioner association are carrying on different business activities in the shops owned by the respondent Municipality ever since 2007 and they have been promptly paying the monthly rent without default. It is submitted that the lease wh