the Village Officer. The Village Officer, conducted a site inspection and found that the property for which the petitioners applied for assignment, was Poramboke land; it is a waterlogged area which was not in possession of petitioners as claimed and there were no improvements in it. It was further found that the petitioners were having other landed properties and therefore the land could be utilised for public purposes. The Tahsildar thereupon considered the applications and rejected the same as per Ext P17, saying that the assignment of the said land to petitioners would be against the interest of Govt. and would be contrary to the future development programmes of Government. Ext.P17 order passed on 21.02.2005 was challenged by filing W.P.(C).No.8908 of 2008 and this Court by Ext.P18 judgment dated 17.03.2008, dismissed the writ petition, seeing the delay in challenging the order passed on 21.02.2005. Petitioners' claim relating to possession of the land was also repelled observing that the same was belied by the contents of the documents produced by them in the writ petition. Petitioners filed W.A.No.773 of 2009 in which the judgment of the learned Single Judge was confirmed. However, paragraph 3 of Ext.P18 judgment containing the observation relating to possession was vacated. The petitioners had sought for a direction in the writ appeal
