(Judgment of the Court was made by DR.ANITA SUMANTH, J.)

The writ petitioner is the Appellant. He is an ex-service man and had sought a mandamus directing the respondents to assign him the land in S.No.34/3, admeasuring 1.10.0 hectares, Manakudi Village, Devakottai Taluk, Sivagangai District, ('land in question') as per Revenue Standing Orders -15(3) and 15(13) ('RSO'). He also refers to a recommendation made by the District Collector on 12.10.2020 in Na.Ka.No.C2/21083/2011 and an order passed in WP(MD)No.8282 of

2011 on 26.07.2011.

2. The writ petition had come to be dismissed by way of impugned order dated 04.07.2025, wherein the learned Judge notes that the appellant had reiterated the same prayer in an earlier writ petition. Learned Judge concludes, and rightly, that the claim of assignment of land cannot be made by the Appellant as a matter of right. Reference is made to the detailed counter filed by the respondents, wherein the particulars of the landholdings of the petitioner and his family members had been set out. Hence, and in view of the position that allotment of government land under RSO was intended for the landless and moreover, was discretionary, the writ petition had