Murali B v. The Tahsildar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 25.11.2025
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE N. ANAND VENKATESH W.P.No.44837 of 2025 Murali.B .. Petitioner Vs.
1.The Tahsildar Rasipuram Taluk Namakkal District 2.The Head Surveyor Rasipuram Taluk Namakkal District 3.The Inspector of Police Vennandur Police Station Namakkal District .. Respondents Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents 1 and 2 to survey the 1/10
petitioner's property in survey number 13/1A3 measuring an extent of 0.57.50 Ares in Patta No.1889, respectively situated at Athanur Village, Rasipuram Taluk, Namakkal District and fix its boundaries as per the sale certificate bearing No.6305/ 2022 by obtaining adequate police protection from the 3 rd respondent within the period that may be stipulated by this Court. For Petitioner : Mr.A.Arun Kumar For RR1 and 2 : Mr.Naveen Kumar Government Advocate For R3 : Mr.L.Baskaran Government Advocate (Crl. Side) W.P.No.448 D.Senmurthi .. Petitioner Vs.
1.The Tahsildar Taluk Office Bargur, Krishnagiri District 2.The Inspector of Police Mathur Police Station Krishnagiri District 2/10
3.Sasikumar 4.Kannayiram .. Respondents Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the 1 st respondent with protection of nd respondent to survey the petitioner's lands measuring to an extent of 731⁄4 cents comprised in S.No.847A/5 situated at Kannandahalli Village, Bargur Taluk, Krishnagiri District, as per the petitioner's document patta and FMB. For Petitioner : Mr.K.Thiruvengadam For R1 : Mr.S.Arumugam Government Advocate For R3 : Mr.L.Baskaran Government Advocate (Crl. Side) W.P.No.4 5 6 82 Jothi .. Petitioner Vs.
1.The District Collector Tiruppur Tiruppur District 3/10
2.The Revenue Divisional Officer Tiruppur Tiruppur District 3.The Tahsildar Avinashi Tiruppur District 4.The Firka Surveyor Avinashi Tiruppur District .. Respondents Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the 3 rd and 4 th respondents to measure the petitioner's property comprising in Natham Survey No.296/15 situated at Punjai Thamaraikulam, Avinashi Taluk, Tiruppur District, by considering her online application dated 7.7.2025 in petition No.2025/N123/32/003484 within a time frame.
For Petitioner : Mr.K.Myilsamy For Respondents : Mr.S.Arumugam Government Advocate C O M M O N
O R D E R
In all these writ petitions, the petitioners have sought for considering the 4/10
applications submitted by them and they are seeking for survey of the subject property and for demarcation of boundaries within a time frame fixed by this Court.
2. Heard the learned counsel appearing on either side. 3.In all these writ petitions, the writ petitioners are relying upon title documents/pattas/joint pattas/pattas standing in the name of the predecessor-intitle/pattas standing in the name of the family members, etc., and they have submitted the applications after paying necessary charges, seeking for the survey of the subject property and for demarcation of boundaries.
4. In some of the cases, in the light of certain objections raised by the rival parties/neighbours, they have also sought for police protection, at the time of conducting the survey.
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5. In the considered view of this Court, since the issues involved are common in all these writ petitions, these writ petitions can be disposed of in the following terms:
(a)It is left open to the concerned Tahsildar/Surveyor to take note of the title documents relied upon by the parties and the pattas/joint pattas that are also relied upon in some of the cases. (b)The Tahsildar/Surveyor concerned shall act upon the online applications submitted by the respective petitioners and shall conduct survey in the subject property, in line with the title documents and the pattas that are relied upon by the respective parties and complete the survey, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.
(c)Wherever there are rival claimants, unless they have obtained any restraint order from any Civil Court, such survey shall be conducted in their presence.
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(d)Wherever the Tahsildar/Surveyor is of the opinion that they would require police aid for the purpose of conducting the survey in a peaceful manner, the concerned jurisdictional police shall grant police protection at the time of conducting the survey. (e)It is made clear that in each case where the parties are seeking for survey of the respective subject properties, they should have made an online application and if such online application has not been made, the respective petitioners are directed to make the online application and on receipt of the same, the Tahsildar/Surveyor concerned shall act upon the same, in the light of the above directions issued by this Court.
(f)It is made clear that the directions issued by this Court will pertain only for conducting the survey over the subject property and it will not entitle any parties to fence or put up a compound wall around the properties, more particularly, in cases where there are rival claims. 7/10
All these writ petitions are disposed of in the above terms. No costs. 25.11.2025 rka To 1.The Tahsildar Rasipuram Taluk Namakkal District 2.The Head Surveyor Rasipuram Taluk Namakkal District 3.The Inspector of Police Vennandur Police Station Namakkal District 8/10
4.The Tahsildar Taluk Office Bargur, Krishnagiri District 5.The Inspector of Police Mathur Police Station Krishnagiri District 6.The District Collector Tiruppur Tiruppur District 7.The Revenue Divisional Officer Tiruppur Tiruppur District 8.The Tahsildar Avinashi Tiruppur District 9.The Firka Surveyor Avinashi Tiruppur District 9/10
N. ANAND VENKATESH, J.
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