IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 25367 of 2000 Between: Mohd. Shakeel S/o Gulam Mohd, Hyderabad R/o MCH NO.1-5-202, Zamistanpura, Musheerabad, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Chief Executive Officer, Andhra Pradesh Wakf Board, Hyderabad Manoranjan Complex block No.4, A.P. Housing Board Exhibition Ground, Hyderabad. 2 The Secretary, Minority Welfare and Wakf Government of Andhra Pradesh, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 3 The District Collector , Medak, Sangareddy. 4 The District Panchayat Officer, Medak, R.R.District. 5 The Executive Officer, Grampanchayath Gajwel Mandal, Gajewel District, Medak. ...RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.M.T.GHORI Counsel for respondent No.1: MR S.M.SUBHANI Counsel for respondents 2 to 5: None appeared The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.1 in issuing proceedings dated 17-03-1999. The only grievance of the petitioner, who ﬁled this writ petition as a person interested in the wakf property relating to Dargah Hazarath Giarah Shaheed, R.A. Graveyard, Khankah, is that the Wakf Board by the impugned proceedings gave away the properties to several third parties contrary to the interests of the wakf. In the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by the Chief Executive Oﬃcer of the Andhra Pradesh Wakf Board, it is stated that the erstwhile Mutawalli unauthorisedly sold the property to several encroachers and that after the Board has taken over the management of the institution, it issued the proceedings impugned in this writ petition for converting the encroachers into lessees by fixing monthly rents. In my considered view, if the petitioner has any grievance, in respect of the management of the wakf properties by the Wakf Board, he has an eﬀective remedy under Section 83(2) of the Wakf Act, 1995 to approach the Wakf Tribunal. The writ petition is, therefore, disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to avail the said remedy. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 1st September, 2008 vrn