JUDGMENT :

Pushpa Sathyanarayana, J.

(Prayer: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the order dated 02.12.2019 in W.P.No.27778 of 2017.)

1. This intra-court appeal is filed by the authorities of the Urban Land Ceiling and Urban Land Tax Department, challenging the order passed in W.P. No.27778 of 2017 dated 02.12.2019. When the writ petitioner approached the third appellant/Tahsildar for issuance of patta in respect of his landed property on which he has already put up constructions, the same was rejected by the authorities on the ground that the land was already acquired under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1978 (hereinafter referred to as Urban Land Act).

2. The property in question, situate in an approved lay out No.LPDM/D/TC&P No.25/1975 in Brindavan Nagar, Kodungaiyur village, Tondiarpet, measuring an extent of 3486 and 3080 sq.fts. which originally belonged to one Pankajakshiamma. She had purchased the same from one Ethirajulu by way of a sale deed dated 16.10.1980. The said Pankajakshiamma sold the above plots 1 and 2 in favour of one Maya Devi, who is the daughter of the writ petitioner vide sale deeds dated 06.03