M. Venugopal, J.

1. Heard both sides.

2. No counter is filed on behalf of the Respondents 1 to 5.

3. By consent, the main Writ Petition itself is taken up for final disposal during the time of admission.

4. According to the Petitioner, a strip of land measuring 9.366 Cents in Re-Survey No.B7/124 in Thuckalay Village, Padmanabhapuram Municipal Limit, Kanyakumari District lying East-West along the Northern Border of the Trivandrum–Nagercoil Road (NH.47) (Opposite to the 'Court House' in Padmanabhapuram Municipal Town at Thuckalay, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District) [hereinafter referred to as 'Property A'] was part of the registered holding of his maternal grandfather, viz., Late. Thiru. Vaithiyanathan, which lay on the North of National Highway. It is comprised in Lekkom 321 of Thuckalay Village of the Former Travancore–Cochin State.

5. The plea of the Petitioner is that when the lands were originally surveyed in the Travancore-Cochin State, the above said property 'A' lying in the North of the said road was blocked in old Survey No.3153 and it was classified as the patta holding of his grandfather Late. Thiru. Vaithiyanathan. The road in the South of the land i.e., Trivandrum–Na