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Justice G.M. Mohiuddin of the High Court declined to enactment the auction of lands of Raja Rajeshwara temple astatine Donabanda colony of Hajipur mandal successful Mancherial territory for granting 1 twelvemonth tenancy rights.
The plea was filed by Polasa Srisailam claiming that the temple was built by his household astir a period ago. He maintained that helium inherited the trusteeship and archaka rights of the temple, adding the temple lands were nether his implicit control.
Stating that the projected auction of temple lands was arbitrary and cannot beryllium undertaken without keeping him successful the loop, the petitioner sought a absorption to enactment the auction. The authorities pleader for Endowments submitted to the seat that Section 43 of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable Hindu Religious and Endowment Act did not prohibit the competent authorization from leasing the temple land.
Rights implicit each the properties of the temple are vested successful the deity and the instauration and the ‘archaic’ would beryllium lone a servant of the deity, the authorities counsel said. The justice said the petitioner tin enactment successful the auction arsenic a bidder if helium wished to proceed to cultivate the land, and declined to enactment the auction.
