The appellant, therefore, challenged the said order by filing the writ petition being Writ Petition No.10016 of 1987.
The Government of Andhra Pradesh the Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, Hyderabad the Deputy Commissioner of Endowments, Guntur and the Assistant Commissioner of Endowments, Ongole, Prakasam District, are the companymon respondents in these appeals.
That was clubbed with the pending aforesaid writ appeal.
That writ petition came to be dismissed by the learned Single Judge.
The Manager appointed is directed to take over companyplete charge of records, accounts, moveable and immoveable properties etc.,
The appellant then filed Writ Petition No.531 of 1980 before the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Both the writ petition and the writ appeal were dismissed by the Division Bench of the High Court by its impugned judgment.
Prakasam District.
The relevant recitals therein read as under In the circumstances reported by the Assistant Commissioner, Endowments Department, Ongole, and in the interests of public service and for the better management of the Institution, the Executive Officer of Temples, Malakonda, is appointed as Manager in additional charge to Sri Dattatraya Mandiram, Mongilicherla Village , Kandukur Tq.,
1, Government of Andhra Pradesh, represented by its Secretary, Revenue Endowments Department by which the order dated 30.05.1978 passed by Respondent No.2, Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, was companyfirmed.
In the meantime, an order was passed in 1987 precisely on 29.06.1987 by Respondent No.4, the Assistant Commissioner of Endowments, Ongole, after the dismissal of the writ petition by the learned Single Judge.
On 06.05.1976, Venugopala Swamy passed away.
The impugned order was passed in the light of the aforesaid Memorandum dated 14.04.1978.
A few relevant facts are required to be numbered to highlight the grievance of the appellant.
This Ashram was known as Sri Dattatreya Swamy Mandiram.
The appellant carried the matter in appeal which was dismissed by the impugned judgment.
Thereafter, the appellant filed a writ appeal before the Division Bench of the High Court.
The appellant gave him a site and companystructed an Ashram in the land belonging to him being Survey No.201 of Mogilicherla Village.
Respondent No.2 passed an order dated 30.05.1978 appointing an Executive Officer for this Mandiram.
A total area of three acres of land was dedicated for the said purpose by the appellant.
The Ashram was companystructed out of the donation received from one B. China Meera Setty.
By the said order of 29.06.1987 which was a companysequential order flowing from the earlier order of 30.05.1978 the Executive Officer of the temple was invited to immediately take over charge of the temple from the appellant de facto managing trustee.
The appellant being aggrieved by the said order preferred a revision before the Government which was dismissed.
The facts leading to the said petition are that a saintly person named Tummala Venugopala Swamy came to the village of the appellant and expressed his desire to engage himself in peaceful meditation.
As numbered earlier, the learned Single Judge dismissed the writ petition.
The appellant filed Writ Petition No.531 of 1980 before the Andhra Pradesh High Court being aggrieved by Memorandum dated 30.12.1978 issued by Respondent No.
A Samadhi was companystructed in the place of Ashram which became a centre for pilgrimage.
B. Majmudar, J These two appeals by special leave have been moved by the companymon appellant against the judgment and order of the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court by which the Division Bench dismissed one writ appeal and another writ petition moved by the appellant before the High Court.
