IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 15898 of 2005 Between: Kamatham Nageswara Rao S/o. Veera Swamy R/o. Lingareddypalem Koduru Mandal Krishna District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Asst. Commissioner Emdowments Department Vijayawada Krishna District. 2 Sri Gokarneswara Swamy Vari Devasthanam Rep.by its Manager (Executive Officer) R/o. Lingareddipalem Village Koduru Mandal Krishna District. ....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.T.N.M.RANGA RAO Counsel for Respondent No.1: AGP FOR ENDOWMENTS Counsel for Respondent No.2: MR.P.LAXMA REDDY The Court made the following : O R D E R: 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 for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in conducting public auction for the land admeasuring Acs.2.80 cents in Survey No.347/2 of Lingareddipalem Village, Kodur Mandal, Krishna District, vide auction notice dated 09-07-2005 as illegal and arbitrary. In his affidavit, the petitioner claimed that he is the cultivating tenant of respondent No.2-temple in respect of the above mentioned land for 13 years; that he made a representation on 16-04-2005 to respondent No.1 under Section 82 of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 to declare him as landless poor person and that without disposing of the said application, respondent No.2 issued auction notification, wherein the above mentioned property along with other properties was proposed to be given on lease by way of auction for a period of one year. A perusal of the record shows that this Court by order dated 20-07-2005, granted interim stay. The very fact that the period for which the leasehold rights of the land were proposed to be auctioned being one year, which expired in the year 2006 itself, the grievance of the petitioner against the proposed auction of the leasehold rights ceases to exist. As regards the plea of the petitioner that his representation to declare him as landless poor person is pending before respondent No1, I feel that interests of justice would be met if respondent No.1 is directed to dispose of the said representation of the petitioner, if not already done, within a period of four (4) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. Till the disposal of the petitioner’s application, status quo as on today with respect to possession shall be maintained. Liberty is given to the petitioner to question the order of respondent No.1 if he feels aggrieved by the same. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. As a sequel to disposal of main petition, WVMP No.2940 of 2005 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 21st July, 2008 vrn