IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA WRIT PETITION NO : 13313 of 2009 Between: Dr.K.Venkateswara Rao S/o. Krishna Murthy,Hindu Chilakalapudi Village & Mandal Machilipatnam-2 ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Assistant Commissioner Endowments Department,Vijayawada,Krishna District 2 The Deputy Commissioner Endowments Department,Kakinada East Godavari District 3 The Regional Joint Commissioner Endowments Department,Kakinada, East Godavari District 4 The Commissioner Endowments Department,Kakinada Hyderabad 5 The Government of Andhra Pradesh Ministry of Endowments, Rep.by its the Secretary, Secretariat,Hyderabad .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to recognize me as the F.F.M of the temple and also to appoint me as single trustee under Section 15(3) of the Act 30/87 b) to declare the order of the 1st respondent in D.Dis No.A2/5537/04 dated 12-09-2005 is invalid and void c) and pass Counsel for the Petitioner :PARTY-IN-PERSON Counsel for the Respondents : GP FOR ENDOWMENTS The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S. NARAYANA WRIT PETITION No.13313 OF 2009 ORDER: Heard the party-in-person in elaboration and also the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Endowments. 2. This Court issued rule nisi on 07-07-2009. A counter affidavit is filed on behalf of respondent No.1. 3. Dr.K.Venkateswara Rao, party-in-person, would maintain that he is aged about 73 years and his health is unwell. Though he is a senior citizen, he had been approaching the respondents on several occasions with different representations. But, despite the same, there is no redressal to his grievance. 4. The learned Assistant Government Pleader for Endowments had taken this Court through the contents of the counter affidavit filed by respondent No.1 and would maintain that substantially for the same relief the petitioner had already filed O.A. No.20 of 2007 on the file of the Deputy Commissioner, Endowments Department, Kakinada, respondent No.2 herein, and the same is pending for disposal. 5. The party-in-person had taken this Court through the contents of the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition and several facts have been carried in detail commencing from paragraph Nos. 2 to 14. 6. The relief prayed for in the writ petition is to recognize him as the founder family member of Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple, Chilalkalapudi, Machilipatnam-2 and also to appoint him as single trustee under Section 15 (3) of Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act 30 of 1987 and for certain other appropriate reliefs. 7. It is not in serious controversy that substantially for the same relief, the petitioner had already filed O.A. No.20 of 2007 before respondent No.2. The main grievance of the party-in-person is that though O.A. No.20 of 2007 had been filed before the respondent No.2 about two years ago and though several representations are being made to almost all the respondents, the same are not yet disposed. 8. It is pertinent to note that the party-in-person is aged about 73 years and he is a senior citizen. Normally priority would be given for disposal of the matters of the senior citizens. Inasmuch as, the O.A. filed by the party-in- person is pending for disposal before the respondent No.2 for sufficiently a long time, this Court is of the considered opinion that taking the over all facts and circumstances, the writ petition be disposed of directing the respondent No.2 to dispose of O.A. No.20 of 2007 within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of this order without any further adjournments whatsoever, especially in the light of the pitiable position in which the party-in-person is placed and also taking into consideration the age of the party-in-person. 9. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ (P.S. NARAYANA, J) September 9, 2009 Note: Furnish C.C. of the order within one week. B/O.MD