Judgment

GAJENURAGADKAR, J . : This appeal is directed against the order passed by the Andhra High Court dismissing an application for a writ filed by the appellants in that Court. The four appellants are the Trustees appointed by the Nizam of Hyderabad by a Trust-deed executed by him on June 14, 1954. On the 2nd March, 1959, respondent No. 1 who is the Director of Endowments and Joint Secretary, Board of Revenue, served a notice on the appellants calling upon them inter alia, to register the said Trust under the Hyderabad Endowment Regulation 1348-F (1939) and to render accounts of the same from the date of its inception to the date of the notice within a week. The appellants disputed the authority, of respondent No. 1 to issue the said notice and urged that the trust was not governed by the said Regulation. Thereupon, the first respondent issued an order on March 23, 1959 and in pursuance of it, sealed the Pay office of the said Trust. Subsequently, on the 25th March, 1959, the said seal was removed in pursuance of the order issued by the second respondent, the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The appellants then were called upon to produce their books of accounts in order that the f