JUDGMENT

These two writ petitions are connected and therefore, I am disposing of these two writ petitions by a common judgment.

2. I will narrate the facts in W.P.(C). No.37491/2015 first:

Petitioners are the owners of 12 cents of land which was purchased by them in the year 2010 as per Ext.P1 sale deed, is the submission. The property owned by the petitioners is situated on the side of National Highway 66 (NH66) at Ponnani. It is submitted that, on the southern side of the property a movie theatre by name Alangar Talkies is functioning. It is also submitted that on the northern side of the property residential cum shopping complex of one Mrs. Amina Hamsa is situated and on the opposite side of the road just in-front of the property of the petitioners, residential cum shopping complex of one Mr. Abdul Rahiman is situated. It is submitted that, all these buildings are situated in pucca garden lands and are assigned with building numbers by the 1^st respondent Municipality. It is submitted that, all these lands are lying contiguously with that of the property of the petitioners. Ext.P3 photographs is produced to prove the same. When the petitioners submitted an application for building p