IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 26879 of 2005 Between: 1 K. Narasimha Rao S/o Late K. Jaganath Rao R/o Vivekananda Colony, Nalgonda, Nalgonda District 2 K. Sitha rama Rao S/o Late K. Jaganatha Rao R/o 16-2-751/A/39, Karan Bagh, Saidabad, Hyderabad 3 K. Jagan Mohan Rao s/o Late K. Seetharama Rao R/o Charlapalli, Nalgonda District ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Government of A.P., rep by Principal Secretary, Department of Endowments, Secretariat, Buildings Hyderabad 2 The Commissioner of Endowments, Tilak Road, Hyderabad 3 The Assistant Commissioenr of Endowments, Nalgonda Nalgonda District .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.Y.V.RAVI PRASAD Counsel for the Respondents: GP FOR ENDOWMENTS The Court made the following : ORDER: At the interlocutory stage, the writ petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not appointing either the petitioners or any of their family members as founder trustee and also as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sri Sitha Ramachandra Swamy Temple situated at Anneparthy Village, Seetharamapuram, Nalgonda District and in issuing notification, dated 02.12.2005 for constituting Board of Trustees as illegal and arbitrary to the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987. At the hearing, Sri Y.V.Ravi Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that in view of the interim order granted by this Court on 16.12.2005, the notification, by which, the Trust Board was proposed to be constituted, has become abortive. He therefore, stated that the writ petition may be closed as infructuous by giving liberty to the petitioners to approach the competent authority to recognize the petitioners as the persons belonging to founder family. The request of the learned counsel is accepted and the writ petition is disposed of as infructuous with liberty in terms of the prayer made. As a sequel to disposal of main petition as infructuous, WVMP.No.2398 of 2006 is dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 4th JULY, 2008. kvni