IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.20329 of 2005 Between: Gangavarapu Venkata Subba Reddy and two others. … Petitioners And The Assistant Commissioner of Endowments, Ranganayakulapeta, Nellore and two others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri C.Damodar Reddy. Counsel for respondents: AGP for Endowments for R.1 & R.2. Sri V.Subrahmanyam for R.3. This Court made the following: ORDER: In this Writ Petition, the petitioners assailed proceedings dated 25-6-2003 of respondent No.1, whereby he approved auction of leasehold rights in respect of land admeasuring Ac.2.00 cents in Survey No.442/2, Patta No.122, situated at Peduru village, T.P.Gudur Mandal, Nellore District, in favour of respondent No.3. At the hearing, Sri C.Damodar Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners, submitted that though the above mentioned land does not belong to any religious institution, much less respondent No.2, the leasehold rights of the said property were illegally put to auction, in which respondent No.3 was conferred with leasehold rights. He, however, conceded that the period for which the lease was granted in favour of respondent No.3 has expired and, hence, the Writ Petition, as it is conceived, has become infructuous. He requested that the Writ Petition may be disposed of as infructuous without prejudice to the rights of the petitioners to initiate appropriate proceedings before a competent forum for asserting their rights over the land in question. The request of the learned counsel for the petitioners is accepted and the Writ Petition is disposed of as infructuous with liberty to the petitioners in terms of the prayer made. ------------------------------------- --- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 30-06-2008 MNR