( 1 ) SINCE the petitioner is common and the question involved in all these Civil Revision Petitions is identical, therefore, they are clubbed, heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is the landlord- temple. It owns an extent of Acs. 22-00 of land in S. No. 197 in Nandigama Village of sattenapalli taluk. Admittedly, the petitioner- temple is the owner of the said lands in question and the said lands auctioned in favour of different persons, who are respondents herein.

( 3 ) ACCORDING to the respondents, they have been cultivating the lands from 1991 onwards, as the lands were having taken in the auction on lease. When the cultivating ryots of the said lands were sought to be auctioned in favour of the highest bidder, the respondents filed different ATCs. under sections 10 and 16 of A. P. (Andhra Area) tenancy Act seeking for a declaration that they are the cultivating tenants and they are entitled to all the benefits under the A. P. Tenancy Act and accordingly injunctions were granted in their favour and against the petitioner-temple from conducting the auction of the leasehold rights and the said atcs were allowed by the