Tamil Nadu government has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to suspend the auctioning of Sadavarti Satram lands. In that petition, it requested to cancel the auctioning if it was already done. Tamil Nadu Government stated that Andhra Pradesh has no connection with the Sadavarti lands.
It may be noted that in July2016, Andhra Pradesh Endowments Minister P Manikyala Rao said that there was no response and cooperation from the Tamil Nadu government in the auctioning of Sadavarti Satram lands.
The land in question belonged to the Sadavarti Satram of Sri Amaralingeswara Swamy temple (at Amaravati) located in old Mahabalipuram under the Talamburu village limits in Tamil Nadu
The satram has about 471 acres of lands, of which only 83 acres were left unoccupied for which the AP Govt conducted auctioning at a meagre rate of Rs 27 lakh per acre. Manikyala Rao said that major portion of land was occupied or distributed by the Tamil Nadu government.
Even though the Endowments Department reportedly took possession of the land in 1962, the management affairs were taken care by the trustees of the Satram.
