ORDER :

Rakesh Kumar, J.

Authored By : Rakesh Kumar, D. Ramesh

1. W.P. No. 127 of 2020 was filed as Public Interest Litigation with a prayer to declare the action of the respondents, particularly, respondent No. 2, Principal Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department in issuing Notice Inviting Offer (NIO) to Outright Sale of land Parcels/Land Assets on behalf of Mission Build AP, Government of Andhra Pradesh, available at Guntur and Visakhapatnam Districts of Andhra Pradesh "as is where is" basis through E-auction vide NIO No. NBCC/GM-AP/AP LM-1/2020/1 calling for applications as highly illegal, arbitrary, and consequently made a prayer to set aside NIO No. NBCC/GM-AP/AP LM-1/2020/1.

2. The present writ petition was firstly taken up by a Division Bench of this Court comprising Hon'ble Sri Justice A.V. Sesha Sai and Hon'ble Sri Justice B. Krishna Mohan and a Bench of this Court while granting time for filing counter affidavit, passed an interim order restraining finalization of the bidding process. The said writ petition was