At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties.

2. This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to set aside the order vide No.G.1/SW/73/2006, dated 27.4.2007, of respondent No.2 and also the declaration vide Roc.No.73/2007/GI, dated 10.7.2007, issued under Section 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (for short 'the Act').

3. The petitioners are owners of land admeasuring Acs.2-00 cent in Sy.No.261/ 2A2 of Kunchanapalli Village. The said land was notified for acquisition for providing house sites to the people belonging to Scheduled Caste and Backward Class sections. A notification under Section 4(1) of the Act, dated 13.2.2007, was published on 22.2.2007 in the newspapers. Curiously, even before publication of the said notification, respondent No.3 issued notice under Section 5-A of the Act, published on 15.2.2007, fixing the date of personal hearing on 2.3.2007. It is the pleaded case of the petitioners that as they were away from the village they came to know about the initiation of land acquisition proceedings through one of the villagers and that, immediately thereafter, they have s