JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records of the 1st respondent - Deputy Collector (Revenue), Revenue Department, Puducherry, pertaining to his letter vide letter No.8242/DC/(R) N/Tsu-A4/2011 dated 18.10.2012 and to quash the same and consequently, direct the respondent to allot Tsunami house to the petitioner.)

1. The petitioner is one Mr.Chezhian. He seeks certiorarified mandamus challenging letter dated 18.10.2012 that has been passed by the 1st respondent – Deputy Collector (Revenue), Revenue Department, Puducherry and for a consequential direction to the respondents, R1 as well as the Tahsildar, Oulgaret Taluk, Puducherry, being the 2nd respondent, to allot a house to the petitioner in place of the house that was destroyed by the Tsunami in 2004.

2. The petitioner claims that he was born and brought up at Ganapathichettikulam Fishermen Colony at Puducherry and was residing in a house in that colony. His house, along with other houses in that hamlet, was destroyed by the Tsunami which hit the seashore of Puducherry Union Territory on 26.12.2004. The petitioner lost his father i