HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12256 of 2011 Date: 28.09.2011 Between: M.Prameela ..... Petitioner AND The Vice-Chairman, A.P. Housing Board, Hyderabad and two others. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner: Sri N.Aswartha Narayana Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 and 2: Sri T.Bheem Singh for Sri M.Brahma Reddy Standing Counsel for APHB The Court made the following: ORDER: This petitioner who claims to be running an Orphanage in H.No.252, LIG-I, of A.P. Housing Board Colony, Ananthapur, filed this Writ Petition with the grievance that without accepting her request for sale of vacant plot bearing H.No.251, LIG-1, the A.P. Housing Board has issued a notice, dated 19.03.2011, inviting applications for sale. In pursuance of the sale notice, auction was held on 20.04.2011, in which, respondent No.3 has offered the highest amount. Counter-affidavit is not filed by any of the respondents. At the hearing, Sri T.Bheem Singh, learned counsel representing Sri M.Brahma Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents, on the basis of the written instructions, submitted that the offers made in the auction held on 20.04.2011 are not accepted by respondent No.1 and that, it was decided to put all the houses including H.No.251, LIG-I, which is the subject matter of the present Writ Petition, to auction again. In my opinion, the petitioner failed to make out any legally enforceable right to insist that she is entitled to purchase the said property without the same being put to auction. Ordinarily, all the public properties shall be disposed of through public auction. The petitioner failed to make out any exception to this general rule. Therefore, no Mandamus can be issued to respondent No.1 to accept the petitioner’s offer and give away the public property through a private arrangement. If the petitioner is interested in buying the property, she is entitled to participate in the auction as and when the same is held. Subject to the above observations, the Writ Petition is dismissed. As a sequel to dismissal of the Writ Petition, W.P.M.P.No.14958 of 2011 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is dismissed as infructuous. __________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 28th September, 2011 DR