2.The case of the petitioner is that the rough stone quarry in S.No.97/19 part 6 of Thiruvakarai Village, Vanur Taluk over an extent of 10.00 hectare was notified for public auction in the VRP (Villupuram Ramasamy Padayachi) District Gazette [Extraordinary] Villupuram No.3, dated 27.12.1993. The then Sub Collector, Dindivanam conducted the auction sale in respect of the said quarry on 20.01.1994 and the petitioner was declared as successful bidder and the petitioner paid the total bid amount of Rs.80,900/- on 31.01.1994. The third respondent laid down as condition for grant of lease that the successful bidder should remit the local cess and local cess surcharge on the bid amount along with bid amount. Challenging the said condition, the petitioner filed a writ petition in W.P.No.2150 of 1994 before this Court. This Court by order dated 08.07.1994, allowed the writ petition holding that the local cess and local cess surcharge should not be demanded and collected after 04.04.1991. Subsequently as against the confirmation for grant of lease in favour of the petitioner, some of the participants of auction, filed W.P.Nos.687 to 689 of 1994 and 825 to 827 of 1994. Though interim stay was granted in favour of the writ petitioners therein, finally, all the writ petitions were dismissed as infructuous on 22.09.1997 and 27.04.2000. Even after dismissal of the writ petitions, the petitioner was not granted the lease of the said rough stone quarry in S.No.97/19 part 6 of Thiruvakarai Village, Vanur Taluk. Thereafter, the petitioner made several representations to the third respondent and also sent a representation dated 11.05.1998 to the second respondent seeking for grant of lease for the above said quarry by executing the lease deed and the said representation was forwarded to the third respondent by the second respondent with a request to pass orders on the same. In the mean time, one Rangarajan, one of the successful bidders in respect of the said stone quarry, filed W.P.No.38730 of 2003 and this Court by order dated 07.02.2004 issued a direction to process the application filed by the petitioner therein for grant of lease of the said quarry and to execute the necessary lease deed for a period of five years subject to the condition on payment of 100% lease amount offered already.
