THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.4747 of 2010 17.03.2010 Between: Masque Managing Committee Quthub Shahi, Rep.by its President Shakeel Quadri ….Petitioner AND The District Collector, Ranga Reddy District, At Lakdikapool, Hyderabad, And others …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.V.S.RAO WRIT PETITION No.4747 OF 2010 ORDER: Masque Managing Committee Quthub Shahi filed the instant writ petition seeking a direction to respondents not to take up repeated survey and demarcation of the wakf property in survey Nos.6 and 7 situated in Mansurabad Village. It is the case of the petitioner committee that the land admeasuring Acs.51.17 guntas in survey Nos.6 and 7 is wakf property within the meaning of Section 3(1) of the Wakf Act, 1995 (the Act, for brevity), as published in A.P.Gazette dated 09.02.1989. The petitioner was constituted under Section 18 of the Act by proceedings dated 31.03.2005 for a period of two years. The period expired in March, 2008. The petitioner then made an application on 12.01.2009 for extention of time. No action is taken thereon nor any new committee is appointed. It is alleged that in the meanwhile, the third respondent is making attempts to survey the wakf properties at the instance of fourth respondent. According to petitioner, fourth respondent has no manner of right in the land comprised in survey Nos.6 and 7, which is a wakf property. After hearing learned counsel for petitioner and perusing the material, this Court has come to a conclusion that the apprehension of the petitioner is that the survey would be conducted behind their back without notice to them. As seen from the affidavit accompanying the writ petition, the property in question is already notified in the Gazette dated 09.02.1989 and therefore, the property which vests in the wakf has to be maintained by Muthawali or the Managing Committee appointed under Section 18 of the Act. In the absence of any new committee managing wakf, the petitioner has a limited interest to manage the wakf properties till new committee is appointed. Therefore, the writ petition is disposed of directing the third respondent to take up survey and demarcation, if necessary, only after giving notice to the President of the petitioner committee. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. _______________ (V.V.S.RAO, J) 17.03.2010 Pln