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2025 DAILYLAW 225527 (MAD)

P.DAVID v. THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER

WP/41526/2025 · 2025-11-05

N Anand Venkatesh

Transfer Petitionbody2025

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W.P.No.41526 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED : 05.11.2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE Mr. JUSTICE N. ANAND VENKATESH W.P.No.41526 of 2025 P.David .... Petitioner Vs 1.The Assistant Commissioner O/o.The Assistant Commissioner Land Reforms Department Coimbatore – 18. 2.The District Collector District Collector Office Tiruppur – 641 604. 3.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Office Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. 4.The Deputy Tahsildar O/o.Tahsildar Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. 1/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.41526 of 2025 5.The Land Revenue Inspector Kurichikottai Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. .... Respondents Prayer : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus to direct the 3rd & 4th respondents to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 18.01.2017, 15.10.2020 & 14.02.2025 and convert the condition patta into ayan patta of the land situated in S.F.No.470/A1C, situated at Kallapuram Village, Udumalpet Taluk, Tiruppur District to an extent of 1.00 acre as per the recommendation of the 5th respondent, within stipulated time fixed by this Court and pass orders. For Petitioner : Mr.B.Kumarasamy For Respondents : Mr.C.Jayaprakash Government Advocate for R1 to R5 ORDER This writ petition has been filed for issue of Writ of Mandamus to direct the third and fourth respondents to deal with the representations made by the petitioner, wherein the petitioner is seeking for conversion of conditional patta into ayan patta with respect to the subject property, as per the recommendations of the fifth respondent. 2/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.41526 of 2025 2. Heard Mr.B.Kumarasamy, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mr.C.Jayaprakash, learned Government Advocate appearing on behalf of respondents 1 to 5. 3. The case of the petitioner is that, the subject property was originally assigned in his favour on 18.07.1996. The petitioner submitted a representation on 18.01.2017 seeking for converting the conditional patta into ayan patta. The same was not considered. Therefore, subsequent representations were made and based on the same, the fifth respondent conducted an enquiry and submitted a report to the fourth respondent and recommended for issuance of ayan patta in favour of the petitioner. The Village Administrative Officer also submitted a report to the fifth respondent in this regard. The fifth respondent had sent a communication to the third respondent on 04.08.2025 stating that the conditional patta can be converted into ayan patta. 4. The grievance of the petitioner is that, the same was not acted upon and it is kept pending. Hence, the petitioner has knocked the doors of this Court. 3/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.41526 of 2025 5. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case and considering the materials placed before this Court and also considering the fact that the report has already been placed before the third respondent recommending for conversion of conditional patta into ayan patta, there shall be a direction to the third respondent to pass final orders, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 6. This writ petition is disposed of with the above direction. No costs. 05.11.2025 Index : Yes / No Speaking order / Non-speaking order Neutral Citation: Yes / No ds 4/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.41526 of 2025 To: 1.The Assistant Commissioner O/o.The Assistant Commissioner Land Reforms Department Coimbatore – 18. 2.The District Collector District Collector Office Tiruppur – 641 604. 3.The Revenue Divisional Officer O/o.The Revenue Divisional Office Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. 4.The Deputy Tahsildar O/o.Tahsildar Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. 5.The Land Revenue Inspector Kurichikottai Udumalpet Taluk Tiruppur District. 5/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis W.P.No.41526 of 2025 N.ANAND VENKATESH,J. ds W.P.No.41526 of 2025 05.11.2025 6/6 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis