JUDGMENT :

Subramonium Prasad, J.

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the order passed in W.P.No.21070 of 2003, dated 3/1/2013.)

1. The Principal Commissioner and Commissioner of Land Reforms and the Assistant Commissioner, Urban Land Ceiling, Chennai, by way of the instant writ appeal challenges the order, dated 3/1/2013, made in W.P.No.21070 of 2003. A learned Single Judge, by the impugned judgment has quashed the proceedings initiated under the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1978, (hereinafter called as “the Ceiling Act” for short) by holding that the writ petitioners were in actual physical possession of the land, on the date when the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 (Act 20 of 1999) (hereinafter called as “the Repeal Act” for short) was passed.

2. It is the case of the writ petitioners that the land measuring an extent of 2800 Sq.mts, in S.No.11/2A1B of Ayapakkam Village, in Chennai Urban Agglomeration were originally held by one Thiru.A.G.Parthasarathy and others. There was a family partition on