ORDER :- The petitioners assail the conduct of an auction for grant of leasehold rights of lands in various extents in Sy. Nos.59, 43, 478 of Rudrakota Village, Kavali Mandal, Nellore District an agricultural property belonging to the 1st respondent-Sri Ramalingeswara Swamy Devasthanam, Rudrakota Village, Kavali Mandal, Nellore District.

2. The petitioners claim to have been in possession of these lands, to be cultivating it by raising crops and paying annual Maktha regularly to the Devasthanam, for the past 30 years. The petitioners do not plead, establish or demonstrate that they are the lawful cultivating tenants of the 1st respondent-Devasthanams lands, consequent on duly executed lease deeds. No particulars are furnished in the writ petition to justify an assumption that the petitioners are lawful tenants.

3. Rule 7 of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Lease of Agricultural Lands Rules, 2003 (for short the Rules) and provisions of similar rules earlier to these; whether made under the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1966 or under the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act 1987 (fo

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