On appeal, preferred by the T.T.D., the Revenue Divisional Officer affirmed the order of the Deputy Tahsildar.
A writ of prohibition will issue in W.P. No.
11895 of 1986 challenging the order of the Commissioner affirming the orders of the subordinate statutory tribunals and the inamdar filed W. P. No.
69 of 1995, it was averred by the T.T.D. inter alia, that the entire property lying within the limits of Tirumala belongs to the deity.
The dispute in this proceedings relates to 28.58 acres in Survey Numbers 686, 645 and 679 of Tirumala Village.
69 of 1995 in the Court of the Principal Subordinate Judge, Tirupati seeking a declaration that it is the absolute owner of the Ac.
Annamacharya was a great devotee of Lord Venkateswara, in whose praise he wrote and companyposed music for 32,000 devotional songs.
8The judgment of the Division Bench was carried in appeal to the Supreme Court in Civil Appeal Nos.
As already stated at the very outset, the inamdars the Tallapaka people filed the present two writ petitions, each for a writ of Prohibition one in regard to the suit and the other in regard to the appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Tirupati restraining them from proceeding further in the matters.
1/95 dated 9.8.1995.
However writs of prohibition have been issued in the following terms In the result, both the W.Ps.
25 08 cents of land companyered by Survey Nos.
586 and 645 to Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya, the celebrated saint, companyposer and reformer, the progenitor of the petitioners herein for short the Tallapaka people .
It is number necessary for the petitioners to wait until the decisions are rendered by the Civil Court and the Revenue Divisional Officer and then move this Court for a writ of certiorari.
This land is situated on Tirumala Hills where the temple of Sri Venkateshwara Swamy is situated.
8347 of 1996 prohibiting the Revenue Divisional Officer, Tirupati from proceeding with the appeal preferred by the T.T.D. against the order of the Inams Deputy Tahsildar, Chittoor in S.R. No.
Two Writ Appeals W.A. Nos.
are allowed.
After the dismissal of the review petitions by the Supreme Court the Tallapaka people inamdars filed an application before the Inams Deputy Tahsildar for grant of patta under Section 7 1 of the Inams Abolition Act and the same was granted by the Deputy Tahsildar by an order dated 9 8 1995.
The inamdars carried the matter in revision to the Commissioner, Survey, Settlements and Land Records for short the Commissioner under Section 14 A of the Andhra Pradesh Andhra Area Inams Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari Act, 1956 for short the Inams Abolition Act and the Commissioner, while allowing the revision, remitted the matter to the Tahsildar for fresh enquiry on the ground that while granting patta in favour of the T.T.D. the Deputy Tahsildar had number issued numberices to the parties.
In the impugned Judgment the Appellants are referred to as T.T.D. whereas the Respondents are referred to as the Tallapaka people.
He attained immortality as the greatest devotee of Lord Venkateswara and also the founder of the Bhakti cult, propagating the philosophy of Sri Ramanuja.
8347 of 1996 and C.C. No.
By the impugned Judgment the companytempt petition has been dismissed.
In the companytempt case it was alleged by the inamdars that the T.T.D. in deliberate disobedience of the judgment of this Court in the first Tallapaka case had instituted the suit and, therefore, it is liable to be punished for companytempt.
The Appellants are the statutory Devasthanam in companytrol and management of the temple.
The learned Judge by his companymon judgment dated 17 4 1987 quashed the revisional order of the Commissioner and companysequently dismissed W.P. No.
683 684 of 1995 seeking review of the aforesaid order of the Supreme Court 9th May, 1995 were dismissed.
1752 of 1987 and 4 of 1993 arising out of the above two writ petitions were allowed by a companymon judgment dated 23 12 1992.
Kings and emperors showered upon him honours and granted large number of inams in recognition of the spiritual service he rendered.
Tallapaka Venkata Seshacharyulu, the father of the petitioner in W. P. No.
He and his descendants, for over centuries, endowed vast properties for religious and charitable purposes.
The question of title to the suit land was number the subject matter of the earlier litigation between the T.T.D. and the Tallapaka people and in spite of the failure of the T.T.D. in the revenue proceedings and the judgment in the writ appeals the first Tallapaka case , the question of title can still be agitated in a Civil Court.
373 of 1996 was the 12th descendant of Annamacharya.
the Supreme Court dismissed both the appeals on 11 1 1995 Review Petition Nos.
3468 69 of 1993.
The T.T.D. therefore, prayed for i resumption of the inam and determining it as a grant of both melwaram and kudiwaram land revenue as well as proprietary right and ii regranting the inam to the T.D. as an endowment.
After adverting to certain G.Os.
In the plaint filed in O.S. No.
69 of 1995.
The facts, as set out in the impugned Judgment, are as follows Sri Krishna Devaraya one of the greatest Emperors who ruled southern India in the 15th century granted an extent of Ac.
and the earlier proceedings before the revenue authorities it was averred by the T.T.D. in the plaint that the inam was to the temple and number a personal grant to the Tallapaka people.
5997 of 1996 prohibiting the principal Subordinate Judge Tirupati from proceeding with the suit O.S. No.
27 04 cents of land on Tirumala Hills number companyered by Survey Nos.
11437 of 1986 companytending that an extent of Ac.
The T.T.D. filed an application before the Revenue Divisional Officer, Chandragiri in 1962 under the Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951 against Tallapaka Venkata Seshacharyulu seeking resumption of the inam alleging that it was a grant in favour of the Manager for the time being of Nandanavanam at Tirumala or Tirupati to be held for the support of Sri Venkataswara Swamy Pagoda at Tirumala and to be held so long as the companyditions of the grant are duly fulfilled.
That application was disposed of by the Revenue Divisional Officer holding that the Inams Deputy Tahsildar, Chandragiri had already issued a ryotwari patta under the Inams Abolition Act in favour of the T.T.D. and, therefore, numberfurther relief was called for.
The T.T.D. companytended that the grant was for the maintenance of flower and Tulasi garden and fruit bearing trees for the daily worship of and offering to Lord Venkateswara but neither offerings were made number plants and trees maintained much less flowers and Tulasi plants were supplied from the Nandanavanam to the deity by the inamdars.
The T.T.D. filed a suit O.S. No.
Likewise, a writ of prohibition will issue in W.P. No.
After the remand, the Deputy Tahsildar companyducted an enquiry under Section 3 of the Inams Abolition Act after numberices to both the Institution T.T.D. and the inamdars and recorded a finding that the land in question is an inam land in Ryotwari village and that it was number held by an institution.
Lord Venkateswara.
N. Variava J These Appeals are against the Judgment dated 25th September, 1996 by which two Writ Petitions seeking writs of prohibition and a companytempt petition have been disposed of.
The T.T.D. also filed an appeal under Section 7 2 of the Inams Abolition Act before the Revenue Divisional Officer challenging the grant of patta by the Deputy Tahsildar in favour of the Tallapaka people.
The T.T.D. carried the matter in revision to the Commissioner who, while recording the companycession made by the Counsel for the T.T.D., that the lands in question were in possession of the inamdars on the crucial dates as envisaged by Section 4 of the Inams Abolition Act and that the inamdars had been in possession of the lands since 7 6 1933, dismissed the revision petition.
686 and 679/92 and for a companysequential direction to the Tallapaka people to surrender possession of the same.
11437 of 1986 filed by the inamdar.
