This petition under Article 226 of Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioners for issue of a writ of mandamus directing the authorities to decide about the il legalities before proceeding with the operations after providing opportunity of being heard to the tenure holders and quash the Form No. 23, issued without deciding the pending objections.

2. Petitioners allegations in the writ petition are that they are the tenure holders in village Saroorpur Khurd in which second time the consolidation operation have been started and for this purpose a notification has been published intheu. P. Ga/. cttcon27-6-1981. Sincethe villagers of the village were not interested in the consolidation operation, as the same was not in the interest of the public as such they approached the higher authorities. It is stated in the writ petition that though the writ petition is being filed by five persons but in fact the writ petition is on behalf of all the villagers and the writ petition is filed in the representative capacity.

3. The plea of the petitioners arc that the village Saroorpur Khurd is a big village but the Assistant Consolidation Officer and Consolid