JUDGMENT :

By the Bench;

1. This matter is taken up through hybrid mode.

2. The Petitioner in this writ petition seeks to assail Letter No.1999/CA, Bhubaneswar, dated 28.01.2017 (Annexure-9) issued by the Director of the Estate and Ex-Officio, Additional Secretary to Government, General Administration Department in rejecting the application filed by the Petitioner for renewal of the lease and thereby impliedly determining the lease of the Petitioner. Consequential direction was also issued therein to the Petitioner to remove the structure thereon within one month from the date of the said issuance of the said letter.

3. Mrs. Jena, learned Senior Advocate appearing for the Petitioner submits that pursuant to an application filed by the Petitioner, a land measuring Ac 3.000 dec. situated in Mouza Bhoinagar, Bhubaneswar, pertaining to Drawing Plot No.3 as per Drg. No.C-2072 (for brevity, ‘the leasehold property’) was leased out in favour of the Petitioner organization. A lease deed was accordingly executed on 22.09.1960 (Annexure-1). Initially the lease was valid for thirty years.

4. During the subsistence of the lease, the Petitioner was directed to surrender an area measuring 146 feet x