As per the case facts Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd as a lessee was ordered to be evicted from land under the provisions of the Telangana Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions ... and Endowments Act The lessee claimed leasehold rights The appeal to the Supreme Court arose to challenge this eviction order and a direction to consider a lease request under a specific rule The question arose whether the land in question was agricultural and if the Rules particularly Rule were applicable for considering a lease request for such land Finally the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal concerning the eviction but allowed the appeal against the direction to consider the lease request under Rule of the Rules The Court held that the Rules including Rule are not applicable to agricultural land and since the land was found to be agricultural the direction to consider the lease request under those rules was untenable The Court also noted that the agricultural nature of the land does not cease to exist even if it can be used according to a Zonal Development Plan

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