6.6.1980, vide Document No.2053/80. Since the second petitioner's father viz., Mr.A.S.Narayanasamy retired from the partnership firm, the first petitioner's father alone had running the partnership firm and the property was divided amongst them and the extent of acre 0.57 ½ cents of land in southern portion was allotted to his father's brother Mr.A.S.Narayanasamy. After the demise of the first petitioner's father Venugopal, the petitioners along with the family members have executed a partition deed. Insofar as the first petitioner's father's brother's family is concerned, after the death of the first petitioner's father, their family members have divided the property and mutated the revenue records in their favour. After the family arrangements between the petitioners' family members, they executed settlement deed and other release deed and the sub-land was allotted to the petitioners and the petitioners alone are absolute owners of the property. Thereafter, the patta was issued for the property and they have been regularly paying property tax. Originally an extent of 2.30 acres of the said land comprised in S.F. No.84/2 situated at Ganapathy Village is sub-divided for the purpose of providing house for Ganapathy Neighbourhood Project. 4(1) notification of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, was issued on 14.03.1987 vide G.O.Ms.No.597. Subsequently, declaration under Section 6 of the Act came to be made in G.O.Ms.No.387 and the declaration came to be issued on 12.03.1986. However, the said acquisition proceedings were challenged by the first petitioner's father and the other land owners in W.P.No.3387 of 1986 and the same was allowed on 23.10.1991 along with a batch of writ petitions. However, aggrieved by the same, the 1st respondent herein has filed an appeal in W.A.No.731 of 1995 and the same was allowed by the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court on 03.06.2002.
