COMMON ORDER

The writ petitioners in this batch of writ petitions have, by and large, made identical prayer to issue a Writ of Mandamus to direct the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to approve the revised layout plan submitted on their behalf by the fifth respondent society and consequently direct the fifth respondent society to execute Sale Deeds in their favour, based on the allotment made in Vadaperumbakkam Co-operative Nagar (Extension).

2. The fifth respondent Cooperative Society has come out with a scheme for allotment of housing plots to individual prospective buyers. The scheme was titled Vadaperumbakkam Co-operative Nagar Housing Project. The fifth respondent society claimed that they have formed a new layout in a sprawling land measuring an extent of 14.78 acres and invited individual buyers for sale of the housing plots. To this effect, the fifth respondent society caused a newspaper advertisement in one issue of English Daily 'The Hindu' on 21.06.1998. Even in the advertisement, it was mentioned that approval of the layout by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (in short CMDA) is awaited. In response to the advertisement, it is stated that about 119