Land was originally subjected to Urban Land Ceiling Proceedings and subsequently, it has been developed into housing colony in the name of 'Appollo Armstrong Nagar' - Innocent Purchasers of plots in the Layout are entitle to Regularisation.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED:26.03.2019 CORAM THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE T.RAJA W.P.No.4991 of 2019 K.M.Sridhar .. Petitioner vs 1.The State of Tamil Nadu, Rep. by its Principal Secretary to Government, Revenue and Disaster Management Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009. 2.The Special Commissioner, Commissionerate for Urban Land Ceiling & Urban Land Tax, Chepauk, Chennai 600 005. 3.The Assistant Commissioner, Urban Land Ceiling and Urban Land Tax, Madhavaram Zone, No.2, Vivek Nagar, Kolathur, Chennai 600 099. .. Respondents It is averred in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition that petitioner claims to be the owner of the land in Survey No.45/1. It is further stated that he purchased the land to an extent of 2560 sq.ft from one Mr.Purushothaman, son of Shanmugam, by a Registered Sale Deed bearing document No.2870 of 1995. Thereafter, he has been paying the property tax to the Competent Authority without any deviation. Since the land was originally subjected to Urban Land Ceiling Proceedings and subsequently, it has been developed into housing colony in the name of 'Appollo Armstrong Nagar' in the year 1981 itself, number of innocent purchasers http://www.judis.nic.in purchased the land without any reference to the land ceiling proceedings including the petitioner. Therefore, the Government issued G.O.M.S.No.649, Revenue Department, dated 20.07.1998, to regularize the lands purchased by the innocent purchasers without reference to the Urban Land Ceiling proceedings by collecting fees for the land and subsequently, one more G.O.M.S.No.565, Revenue Department dated 26.09.2008, was issued extending the time limit to those subsequent purchasers as well. Thus, in the light of the said Government Orders, the petitioner gave a representation dated 08.11.2012 to the Competent Authority to consider his case for regularization of his land.