statutory appeals under Section 80-A of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act and the learned Special Government Pleader appearing for the first respondent also informed this Court that their appeals, after receipt of the report from the CMDA, will be disposed of on merits and as per law, in the light of the averments made in paragraph-8 of the status report that at present around 2444 revision petitions have been filed and in several cases, appeals are being disposed of in compliance of the time bound orders that are being passed by this Court, we hereby direct the first respondent, namely, the Secretary to Government, Housing and Urban Development Department to consider the appeal filed by the petitioner on merits and dispose of the same in accordance with law expeditiously. Since the petitioner has also moved stay application and the authority has not taken up the stay application, we also direct the respondents 2 & 3 and the petitioner to maintain status quo, till the appeal of the petitioner is disposed of by the first respondent on merit and as per law expeditiously. We also place on record the submission made by the learned Additional Advocate General appearing for the second respondent in W.P.No.620/2022 that the individual applications filed under Section 113-C of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act will also be dealt with by the second respondent in the manner known to law, after the outcome of the appeals under Section 80-A, expeditiously.
