THE HON(cid:146)BLE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN AND THE HON(cid:146)BLE Mr. JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI Writ Appeal No. 1585 of 2017 Judgment: (Per the Hon(cid:146)ble The Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan)

This appeal, under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, is preferred against the order passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P. No. 28816 of 2017 dated 28.08.2017. The appellant herein filed the said writ petition to declare the action of the Gram Panchayat in not conducting a survey of the tanks and water- bodies vested with them for the purpose of fixation of boundaries by removing the encroachments, despite the directions issued by the 3rd respondent in his proceedings dated 24.05.2017, as arbitrary and illegal. A consequential direction was sought to the 5th respondent to undertake a survey of the minor irrigation tanks and water-bodies vested with the Gram Panchayat for the purpose of fixation of boundaries by removing the encroachments.

By his order dated 28.08.2017, the learned Single Judge dismissed the writ petition holding that the petitioner could not invoke the jurisdiction of this Court, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, directly s