THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 23443 of 2008 ORDER: The petitioner approached the Assistant Commissioner of Endowments, Kurnool, the third respondent herein, with a request to recognize him as a member of founder family of Sri Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Temple, S.Kothur Village, Nandyal Mandal, Kurnool District (for short ‘the Temple’). Through the proceedings, dated 11.01.2001, the third respondent recognized the petitioner as member of the founder family. Even before a Board of Trustees could be appointed for the Temple, the classiﬁcation is said to have been changed. In that view of the matter, the petitioner submitted an application to the Commissioner of Endowments, the ﬁrst respondent herein, who is competent authority as per the changed classification. The application is said to be pending. The grievance of the petitioner is that even while the application is pending, the ﬁrst respondent issued a notice, dated 05.09.2008, under Section 15(1) of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act 30 of 1987 (for short ‘the Act’) inviting applications for constitution of Board of Trustees. The petitioner submits that in case he is recognized as a member of founder family, he is entitled to be made part of the Board of Trustees. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Government Pleader for Endowments and the learned Standing Counsel for the Temple. As of now, the petitioner has been recognized by the third respondent as a member of the founder family of the Temple. However, that certiﬁcation does not hold good, in view of the change of classiﬁcation of the Temple. On account of the same, the petitioner approached the ﬁrst respondent, who is said to be the competent authority for the Temple in the context of deciding the claims of persons as members of the founder family. In case the right of the petitioner is recognized or his claim is accepted, he would certainly ﬁnd a place in the Board of Trustees. On the other hand, if the Board is constituted, even while the application is pending, the exercise may become futile. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing that (a) the ﬁrst respondent shall determine the claim of the petitioner submitted under Section 17 of the Act, within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In case, he is not the authority to determine the claim, he shall indicate to the petitioner as to the authority whom he should approach; (b) the ﬁrst respondent shall proceed with the process of receiving the applications, but shall constitute the Board only after the claim of the petitioner is determined. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:30.10.2008. Note: Issue cc in three days. (B/o) kdl