THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.26670 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed questioning the action of the respondents in interfering with the religious activities of the petitioners through their trust. According to the petitioners, they have started a charitable trust in the name and style of Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Charitable Trust at Rajahmundry, with some objects of constructing Community Trade Halls, conducting charitable congregations and conferences, and to provide support of propagation of any other subject of general public utility, etc. The said trust was registered with the District Registrar, Rajahmundry in September, 2009. It is stated that in pursuance of achieving laudable objects of the trust, the petitioners are conducting meetings and congregations at various places and in that context, they have released a pamphlet stating that if the interested devotees pay Rs.99/-, they would give them Baba’s statute and padukas and also the Sai Siddi Yantram, within five days from the date of payment and that they will be permitted to participate in a programme on 28.12.2009 i.e., Mukkoti Ekadasi and that during the course of that particular programme on 28.12.2009, they would select 101 devotees and take them to Shirdi, where they will be given accommodation with meals. The grievance of the petitioners is that the respondents are harassing them stating that their activities are in violation of the Prize Chits and Money Circulation Scheme (Banning) Act, 1978 (for short ‘the Act’) and threatening them to stop propagating religious cult. The learned Government Pleader for Home, on instructions, submits that the second respondent-Sub Inspector of Police, I Town Law and Order Police Station, Rajahmundry, on receiving credible information, conducted raid along with his staff on the office of the petitioners, arrested them and seized some documentary evidence under the cover of mediators report, and based on the said mediators report, registered a case in Crime No.225/2009 for the offences punishable under Sections 420 r/w 34 I.P.C and Sections 3 r/w 4 of the Act. The learned Government Pleader further submitted that the police filed a charge sheet against the petitioners after completion of investigation, and produced a copy of the same into the Court. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader for Home. Since a case in Crime No.225 of 2009 has been registered against the petitioners for the aforesaid offences, they were arrested and remanded to judicial custody, and charge sheet was also filed against them after completion of investigation, I am not inclined to pass any orders in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. N.V. RAMANA, J Date: 06.07.2010 va