1. 63 petitioners have jointly filed the present writ petition seeking for the issue of a writ of certiorarified mandamus or any other appropriate writ or order in the nature of writ by calling for the records from the respondents comprised in Sec.6 declaration and issued under the Land Acquisition Act made in G.O.Ms.No.876, Housing and Urban Development, dated 30.8.1985 and published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, dated 9. 85 and quash the same in so far as it relates to the petitioners lands in S.No.276/1, 277/1, 277/2, 274/5,278, 259, 260/5, 275/3, 274, 274/3, 274/3B, 280/1, 275/2A, 274/2, 278/2, 275, 273, 273/3, 280, 257, 274/4, 258, 251, 274/5B, 277/3, 273/1, 275/1, 274/5A, 280/3, 275/B, 272, 258/1 and 259/2 Goundampalayam village, Coimbatore Taluk, Coimbatore District and consequentially direct the respondents to exclude the said lands from the acquisition proceedings.

2. According to the petitioners, they have purchased small extends of 5 cents or 6 cents or 11 cents of land for the purpose of putting up construction for their residence, that many of them have already put up construction and are residing there, with their families, that ignoring their righ