HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOs.23105, 23106 and 23107 OF 2006 COMMON ORDER: These writ petitions lay a challenge to the Government Memo dated 22.05.2006, whereby the Commissioner of Endowments, Andhra Pradesh, was requested to issue instructions to all the Assistant Commissioners/Deputy Commissioners/Regional Joint Commissioners not to declare tenants of urbanized lands/prime lands situated in urban areas as landless poor persons under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for brevity ‘the Act of 1987’). 2. Interim orders were granted in these cases staying the eviction of the petitioners from the subject lands, which they were in possession of in their claimed status of lessees of the religious institution, Sri Tulja Bhavani Temple, Hyderabad, the 4th respondent. This aspect is however disputed by the temple. 3. It is now stated that the instructions of the Government issued vide the impugned Memo no longer hold the field owing to the subsequent amendment of Section 82(2) of the Act of 1987. Under Amendment Act No.33 of 2007, with effect from 03.01.2008, the said provision was amended whereby leases of agricultural lands situated in municipalities and municipal corporations stood excluded from its ambit. In view of this amendment, persons holding leases of agricultural lands in municipalities and municipal corporations can no longer aspire to the status of a ‘landless poor person’ for seeking the benefits conferred by Section 82(2) of the Act of 1987. Thus, the petitioners’ challenge to the Government Memo dated 22.05.2006 no longer survives for consideration in view of this amendment. If the petitioners are aggrieved by this amendment of the statutory provision, they would necessarily have to initiate independent proceedings challenging the same in accordance with law. 3. These writ petitions have therefore become infructuous owing to the aforestated subsequent development and are accordingly dismissed. Interim orders granted by this Court shall stand vacated. Miscellaneous petitions filed in these writ petitions shall also stand dismissed in the light of this final order. No order as to costs. _______________ SANJAY KUMAR, J June 27, 2011 SP HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NOs.23105, 23106 and 23107 OF 2006 June 27, 2011 SP