IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF JULY, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.15403 of 2005 Between: Bonthu Gopi Reddy … Petitioner AND The Assistant Commissioner, Endowments Department, Kothapeta, Guntur District & another. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri N. Jaya Surya Counsel for respondent No.1: AGP for Endowments Counsel for respondent No.2: Sri N. Guru Gopal This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.15403 of 2005 ORDER:- At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is filed questioning auction notification dated 01.07.2005 issued by respondent No.2 in respect of an extent of Ac.4.00 cents in D.No.336 of Venigandla Village, Pedakakani Mandal, Guntur District. At the hearing, it is represented by the learned counsel for the parties that the period of auction, namely, one year having expired, the writ petition has become infructuous. Sri N. Jaya Surya, learned counsel for the petitioner, however, submitted that though the petitioner was declared as a landless poor person under Rule 3 of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Lease of Agricultural Lands Rules, 2003 (for short, ‘the Rules’) by proceedings dated 01.09.2003 of respondent No.1 and he exercised his option under Section 82 (2) of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for short, ‘the Act’), the respondents highhandedly proposed the property to be auctioned. The fact that the petitioner was declared as landless poor person is not denied by the respondents and in view of this undisputed fact, the petitioner is entitled to the benefit of the provisions of Section 82 (2) of the Act, which provides an option to the tenant, who is the landless poor person, to purchase the property. In this view of the matter, respondent No.1 is directed to consider application dated 08.04.2005 of the petitioner within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petition, WPMP.No.19553 of 2005 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 03.07.2008 ES