IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.13893 of 2005 Between: Karri Ramajogi Naidu. … Petitioner And The Assistant Commissioner, Endowments Department, Turners Choultry, Visakhapatnam and Four others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri P.Srinivasa Rao. Counsel for respondents: AGP for Endowments for R.1 & R.2. Sri T.S.Anand for R.4 and R.5. This Court made the following: ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus to direct respondent No.1 not to appoint Board of Trustees to the four temples named therein until the properties are secured after enquiry being conducted by respondent No.3. Heard Sri P.Srinivasa Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Endowments for respondents 1 and 2 and Sri T.S.Anand for respondents 4 and 5. At the hearing, learned counsel for the parties agreed that the term of respondent No.3, who was appointed as a single man Trustee of the Trust Board expired during the pendency of the Writ Petition in view of Section 17 of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Endowments further submitted that in pursuance of the enquiry got conducted by respondent No.1, the lands under encroachment of various third parties were identified and their possession was recovered from the encroachers. This statement of the learned Assistant Government Pleader is not disputed by the learned counsel for the petitioner. In view of the same, the Writ Petition is disposed of as infructuous. ---------------------------------------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 27-06-2008 MNR