P. Shanmugam, J.

1. Respondents are the appellants. A batch of 42 writ petitions were filed for the issue of a writ of mandamus or other appropriate writ or direction to the third respondent namely the Joint Register No.I, Office of the District Registrar, Erode to deliver the original registered document dated 23.8.1995 and pass such further order as the court deems fit and proper in the interest of justice. The learned Judge has not only issued the direction as prayed for, but has also quashed the Reference made under Section 47-A(1) of the Indian Stamp Act. These writ appeals are against this order.

2. Thefacts of the case are stated below:

The respondents in each of the writ appeals, 21 of them, have purchased an undivided 1?21 share in Door Nos.406/407, Perunthurai Road, Erode by sale deeds dated 23.8.1995 and they were presented for registration on the same day. All the documents were duly registered on the same day by the third appellant herein who assigned separate document numbers for each of the deeds of conveyance and completed the registration. However, the documents were not returned to the respondents and hence they approached the second and third appellant