( 1 ) HEARD both the Counsel.

( 2 ) THIS petition is filed seeking for grant of leave to the petitioner to file an appeal against the judgment and decree dated 13-8-2001 passed by the Court of Senior civil Judge, Bapatla in O. S. No. 66/95.

( 3 ) THE petitioner is a third party to the suit. The case of the petitioner in the affidavit filed in support of the leave petition is that the respondents 1 to 3 herein filed the suit in O. S. No. 66/1995 on the file of senior Civil Judge, Bapatla against the commissioner of Endowments Department and other trustees for declaration that the institution Sri Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari temple Complex situate at Ponnur, as a religious denomination under Article 26 of the Constitution of India, (ii) for the consequential relief of directing the defendants to handover the management of the institution along with its properties to 1st plaintiff, and (iii) for consequential relief of permanent injunction restraining defendants 1 to 3 from ever interfering with the right of the 1st plaintiff to administer the properties of the said institution and its management by not appointing any Trust Board to the institution or in any manner whatsoever; or in the

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