1. The present writ petition has been filed challenging the impugned letter No. 33023 / LA(1) / 2005-22 dated 9.3.2009 issued by the Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department, Chennai, the first respondent herein, wherein the request of the petitioner for re - conveyance of the land in question was rejected, to quash the same with a further direction to the respondents to re - convey the property measuring 4.33 acres comprised in Survey Nos. 612/5, 612/7, 612/8, 612/9, 612/10 at Sholinganallur Village from acquisition proceedings with one another direction to transfer the property to the petitioner herein. During the pendency of the writ petition, on the arrival of the new Act, namely, The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 , which came into force on 1.1.2014, MP No. 1 of 2014 was filed seeking to amend the prayer, as follows: -
"To issue a Writ of Declaration, declaring that the land acquisition proceedings in respect of the land comprised in S. Nos. 612/5, 612/7, 612/8, 612/9, 612/10 and 612/12A of Shozhinganallur Village, Shozhinganallur Taluk, Kancheepuram District as having lapsed