JUDGMENT :

G. JAYACHANDRAN, J.

Prayer: Special Tribunal Appeal filed under Section 30 of the Tamil Nadu Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963 read with Rule 28 of the Rules, against the judgment and decree, dated 30.11.1990, made in C.M.A.No. 16 of 1981, on the file of the S.T.A.Nos.20 to 24 of 2001, 1 to 8 and 10 to 19 of 2002 Minor Inam Abolition Tribunal (Principal Sub-Judge), Tiruchirappalli, reversing the order of the Settlement Tahsildar III (SE), Tiruchirappalli, dated 29.08.1969.

1. These batch of Special Tribunal Appeals are directed against the order passed by the Inam Estate Abolition Tribunal at Trichy. The facts and law involved in all these appeals are similar and in fact arising out of a common order passed by the Tribunal. Hence, these batch of Special Tribunal Appeals filed under Section 30 of the Tamil Nadu Minor Inams (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1963, (herein to be referred as “the Act”) are taken up together for consideration and the following common judgment is passed.

2. The subject matter of the suit is in respect of the land covered under Inam Title Deed No. 1027, granted as Devadayam for the support of the Pagoda of Sr