HON’BLE SHRI G.S.SINGHVI, THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION No. 6868 OF 2007 Between: D. Papa Raju and 24 others …Petitioners AND The Commissioner, Endowments Department, Tilak Road, Hyderabad and three others ...Respondents : O R D E R : Counsel for the respondents : Government Pleader for Endowments August 6, 2007 Per G.S.SINGHVI, CJ Letter sent by the inmates of Home for the Aged, Door No. 16- 140, Kanuru Village, Vijayawada with the complaint that the officers of the Endowments Department were seeking to sell the land of Acs.2.23 cents, which was allotted to it is sought to be sold for commercial purposes was treated as a taken up petition. In response to the notice issued by the Court, affidavits dated 18- 4-2007 and 8-6-2007 have been filed by Shri C. Raghupathi, Joint Commissioner (Estates), Endowments Department, Hyderabad and Shri Navin Mittal, District Collector and Magistrate, Krishna at Machilipatnam. A perusal of the record including the two affidavits shows that the home for senior citizens has been constructed on Acs.0.37 cents of the total area measuring Acs.2.23 cents. At the hearing, learned Government Pleader for Endowments placed before us, letter Rc.No.A1/8741/2004, dated 21-6-2007 sent by Assistant Commissioner, Endowments, perusal of which shows that only Ac.1.04cents of land out of total area of Acs.2.23 is being sold by public auction and the remaining Ac.1.19cents will be left for the Home for the Aged persons. The letter produced by the learned Government Pleader is taken on record and the writ petition is disposed of with the direction that the old age home shall be allowed to retain Acs.1.19 cents of land and the remaining land shall be utilized for residential purpose and not for commercial purposes. G.S. SINGHVI, CJ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J August 6, 2007 ks