On that basis, after making a declaration of law in the manner stated above, the Division Bench dismissed the appeals filed by the State.
One of the reasons given by the Division Bench of the High Court to reach this companyclusion is that the tenancy Acts, namely, the Andhra Pradesh Andhra Area Tenancy Act, 1956 hereinafter referred to as the Andhra Act and Andhra Pradesh Telangana Area Tenancy and Agricultural Land Act, 1950 hereinafter referred to as the Telangana Act are still in force.
3694 3748 OF 1996 In a batch of writ petitions filed in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh the companystitutional validity of Section 82 of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable Hindu Religious Institutions Endowments Act, 1987 hereinafter referred to as the Act was challenged.
Inams were abolished in the Telangana area of the State in 1955 and that process was companypleted in 1973.
Hence these appeals by special leave.
WITH W.P. C NOS.
1429/1987 and 120/1988 J U D G M E N T RAJENDRA BABU, J. CIVIL APPEAL NOS.
The matter was carried in appeal to the Division Bench.
