IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) SATURDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.9372 of 2001 Between: G.Vijayakumar Patel. … Petitioners And Government of Andhra Pradesh, reptd.. by its Secretary, Endowments Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and two others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri Ch.Sreenivasa Murthy. Counsel for respondents: None. This Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is ﬁled for a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of respondent No.1 in not disposing of representation date 26- 2-2001 ﬁled by the petitioner for grant of exemption under Section 154 of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for short “the Act”) from constituting Trust Board for Sri Maisamma Temple, Lower Tank Bund, Hyderabad. Heard Sri Ch.Sreenivasa Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner and perused the record. While no counter-aﬃdavit is ﬁled by respondents 1 and 2, in the counter-aﬃdavit ﬁled by respondent No.3 it is stated that the Assistant Commissioner of Endowments Department, Twin Cities, Hyderabad, by his proceedings dated 18-5-1998 recognized the petitioner as a member of the Founder’s family and an Executive Oﬃcer was appointed for the said Temple under Section 29 of the Act. As the petitioner’s grievance, viz., that respondent No.1 has not disposed of the representation made by him, cannot be said to be unjust, the Writ Petition is disposed of, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the claim of the petitioner, with the direction to respondent No.1 to dispose of representation dated 26-2-2001 said to have been ﬁled by the petitioner, if not already done, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this Order. ----------------------- ----------------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date:06-08-2008 MNR