M. S. LIBERHAN, C. J.

( 1 ) THIS order will dispose ,of the Writ appeal as well as the Writ Petition, which was taken up for decision on merits with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties.

( 2 ) THE dispute involved in these matters relates to leasing of fishery rights over the tondapi major irrigation tank situate in tordapi Gram Panchayat in Guntur district. The Gram Panchayat claiming that the minor irrigation tank in dispute vests in the Gram Panchayat auctioned the fishery rights in favour of the 6th respondent herein by operation of Section 80 of the andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (for short the Act ). The Gram Panchayat represented by its Sarpanch initially filed the Writ Petition No. 15090 of 1999 against respondents 1 to 4 seeking a declaration that the tank vests in the Gram Panchayat with a consequential relief of issuing a mandamus injuncting the respondents from interfering in the rights of the panchayat over the tank in dispute and other tanks situate within the limits of the Tondapi gram Panchayat and to declare the contemplated action of the respondents 1 to 4 in divesting the control and regulatory power of the Gram Panchayat in regard to suc

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