IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION Nos.14996 & 16191 of 2010 W.P.No.14996 of 2010 Between: Kaki Shankara Rao. ..... Petitioner AND Govt., of A.P., rep., by its District Collector (Panchayat Wing), East Godavari District, Kakinada & others. .....Respondents Counsel for the petitioner : Sri T.V.S. Prabhakar Rao Counsel for respondents 1&2: AGP for Panchayat Raj Counsel for respondents 3&4: Sri Venkateswara Rao for Sri M. Prabhakar Rao Counsel for respondents 5to7: Sri K. Gani Reddy The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION Nos.14996 & 16191 of 2010 COMMON ORDER: In both these writ petitions, the petitioners have questioned the action of respondent No.4 in not conducting auctions for leasehold rights of 101 shops in 5 markets, namely; (i) Sri Tirupati Venkateshwara Market (down) (ii) Sri Rajiv Gandhi Shopping Complex (up) (iii) Sri Goluguri Venkata Reddy Market (down) (iv) Sri Goluguri Venkata Reddy Market (up) and (v) New Market of Anaparthy Panchayat and Mandal, East Godavari District. At the hearing, the learned Standing counsel representing respondent No.4 submitted and placed before the Court auction notice dated 08.09.2010, whereby respondent No.4 proposed to hold auction on 18.09.2010. He has further stated that questioning the said auction notice, some of the lessees, whose leases have expired, filed Writ Petition No.22736 of 2010, which was dismissed by this Court by order dated 13.09.2010 and that immediately some other lessees have approached the Government and obtained stay of auction. The learned Standing counsel, therefore, stated that in view of these reasons auction could not be conducted in pursuance of the abovementioned notice. For the same reasons, as mentioned in order dated 13.09.2010 in Writ Petition No.22736 of 2010, these two writ petitions are disposed of with the direction to respondent No.4 to hold auction in terms of the abovementioned auction notice, subject to the disposal of the proceedings by the Government. The petitioners and respondent No.4 are permitted to take part in the proceedings before the Government and oppose the petitions filed by the outgoing lessees. As a sequel to disposal of the writ petitions, WPMP.Nos.18896 and 25177 of 2010 in W.P.No.14996 of 2010 and WVMP.Nos.3286 and 4133 of 2010 in W.P.No.16191 of 2010 are disposed of as infructuous. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 27.09.2010 ES