HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17887 of 2007 Date: January 29, 2011 Between: 1. Pala Chinna Maddileti & 3 others. … Petitioners and 1. Government of Andhra Pradesh, represented by its Principal Secretary, Endowments, Hyderabad & 3 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.17887 of 2007 ORDER: The petitioners filed the present case assailing the action of the Sri Jagannadha Swamy Temple, Dhupadu village, Lakshmipuram Gram Panchayat, Kallur Mandal, Kurnool, fourth respondent, in conducting an auction in respect of the leasehold rights over the subject land in Survey No.60 of the said village. 2. It is the claim of the petitioners that the said land belongs to them and that the temple had no right or authority in law to put the same to auction. This Court granted interim stay of the auction by order dated 22.8.2007. 3. Be that as it may, the Assistant Commissioner, Endowments, Kurnool, third respondent, filed a counter asserting that the subject land belongs to the fourth respondent temple and that title deeds and pattadar passbook under the A.P. Rights in Land and Pattadar Passbooks Act, 1971 were also issued in favour of the temple in this regard. 4. In any event, the leasehold rights, which were put to auction by the fourth respondent temple, were for a period of three years and expired due to efflux of time. 5. As the grievance of the petitioners was with regard to the conducting of the auction of the leasehold rights, which no longer survive due to expiry of the auctioned leasehold period, no cause survives for adjudication in this writ petition. In so far as the dispute over the title of the subject land is concerned, the parties would have to settle their rival claims before the competent forum in accordance with law. 6. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: January 29, 2011. BSB