HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.10817 of 2010 30th April 2010 Between: Pentakota Muralishankara Ayodya Ramu … PETITIONER(S) and The Assistant Commissioner, Endowments Department, Visakhapatnam and others … RESPONDENT(S) HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.10817 of 2010 ORDER: Heard Sri M.V.Raja Raam, learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Endowments. At their request, the Writ Petition is being disposed of at the stage of admission. By the impugned auction notification dated 10.04.2010, the people at large were informed that the leasehold rights of the lands in question were being put to auction on 03.05.2010. On 29.04.2010, petitioners 1 and 2 claim to have filed an application seeking that they be declared as landless poor persons and, on the very next day, a lunch motion is moved before this Court seeking a direction that they may not be dispossessed till their application that they be declared as landless poor persons is disposed of. Section 82 of Act 30 of 1987 applies only to lessees of agricultural lands belonging to Charitable Institutions and Religious Endowments. Except to state that they are cultivating the lands, the petitioners do not even assert, in the writ affidavit, that a lease agreement has been entered into between them and the third respondent. All that they say is that they have been paying cist and lease rents regularly and that they have been cultivating the lands. That, by itself, would not make them lessees of lands belonging to the temple nor would it entitle them to claim protection under Section 82 of Act 30 of 1987. In the light of the facts noted hereinabove, I see no reason to interdict the auction proposed to be held on 03.05.2010. Suffice to hold that the respondent shall consider the application submitted by petitioners 1 and 2, that they be declared as landless poor persons, in accordance with law within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of. However, in the circumstances, without costs. _____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN,J 30th April 2010 CVRK