LAWS(APH)-2011-3-98

YELAMARTHI SARATH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Decided On March 25, 2011
YELAMARTHI SARATH KUMAR Appellant
V/S
STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Repeated efforts of the Government notwithstanding, a board of trustees, as mandated by Section 15(1) of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (A.P. Act 30 of 1987), has not been constituted for the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Devasthanam, Dwaraka Tirumala for the past nearly twenty five years, and Sri S.V. Sudhakara Rao, and his family members (erstwhile "hereditary trustees"), continue to remain in sole control and management of the affairs of the temple, though the office of hereditary trustee stood abolished from 23.05.1987.

(2.) W.P. No. 27776 of 2005 is filed by Sri Yemeni Sarath Kumar, a resident of Dorasanipadu village of Dwaraka Tirumala Mandal, West Godavari District, in public interest to declare the inaction of the State Government, in not constituting a non-hereditary trust board for the fourth Respondent, (Sri Venkateswara Swamy Devastanam, Dwaraka Tirumala), in accordance with Section 15 of A.P. Act 30 of 1987, as arbitrary and illegal; and to direct the 1st Respondent to forthwith constitute the non-hereditary trust board for the 4th Respondent temple.

(3.) It is convenient, hereinafter, to refer to the parties in these writ petitions as they are arrayed in W.P. No. 27776 of 2005.