THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.4087 OF 2010 Dated 22nd March, 2010 Between: Uddandrayunipalem Gram Panchayat …Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh And two others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri Godey Satish Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Mines and Geology The Court made the following ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents in conducting the public auction for grant of leasehold rights to quarry sand by notifying the sand reach falling in the petitioner Gram Panchayat limits by limiting it to the Panchayat area instead of on entire Mandal basis as illegal and arbitrary. At the hearing, it is represented by learned counsel for the petitioner and not disputed by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Mines and Geology that in an identical writ petition, namely; W.P.No.4796 of 2008, this Court, by order dated 07.03.2008, passed the following order. “From a perusal of the resolution passed by the petitioner-Gram Panchayat, it is clear that Subject No.29 dealt with the leasehold rights to quarry sand in respect of Thummalapalem Gram Panchayat limits from kms 7.2 to kms 9.3. When once resolutions are passed and the same are brought to the notice of the authorities by the petitioner by way of making representations dated 3.1.2008 and 7.2.2008, the authorities should have passed appropriate orders instead of keeping the petitioner in darkness. Hence, I deem it appropriate to direct the 3rd respondent- Assistant Director of Mines and Geology to consider the resolutions passed by the petitioner as well as the representations made by it and pass appropriate orders as contemplated under Rule 9 of the Andhra Pradesh Minor Mineral Concession Rules, 1966 (G.O.Ms.No.84 dated 10.04.2007) within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.” Inasmuch as the petitioner also passed a resolution in the same way as the petitioner in W.P.No.4796 of 2008 has done, this writ petition is disposed of in terms of the above reproduced order. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 22nd March, 2010 vrn