JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a writ of mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 5 to take appropriate action to cancel the patta issued in favour of the sixth respondent in respect of S.F.Nos.702/1, 702/3 and 702/21, Karungalakudi Village, Melur Taluk, Madurai District. (Amended vide order dated 24.07.2023, passed in W.M.P. (MD) No.12745 of 2023.)

S.S. SUNDAR, J

1. W.P.(MD) No.25002 of 2022 is filed for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 5 to take appropriate action to cancel the patta issued in favour of the sixth respondent in respect of S.F.Nos. 702/1, 702/3 and 702/21 of Karungalakudi Village, Melur Taluk, Madurai District.

2.W.P.(MD) No.15361 of 2023 is filed for issuance of a writ of mandamus forbearing the respondents not to lay any road by encroaching the petitioner''s patta land in Natham Survey Nos.702/1, 702/2 & 702/3 of Karungalakudi Village, Melur Taluk, Madurai.

3.Since the reliefs sought for in the writ petitions are interlinked with each other, both the writ petitions are clubbed together, heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

4.The petitioner in W.P.(MD) No.250