B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS batch of writ appeals and writ petitions may be disposed of by a common judgment, since the question that arises for consideration in all these matters is one and the same. The facts are stranger than fiction. An institution founded by noble men, whose management was entrusted to a Trust Board, disappeared into thin air not on account of any onslaught and difficulties created by the strangers but on account of the death wish of those who were entrusted with the duty of managing the affairs of the institution. The movable and immovable properties, worth crores of rupees, gathered by the noble men were parceled out to private buccaneers who masqueraded themselves as the trustees of the properties. Factual matrix: one late Pandit Bansilal Radhelal Vyas, his colleagues and associates successfully persuaded philanthropic minded people to give and donate movable and immovable property and in the process they have been able to gather and receive donations and gifts including considerable extents of lands for the purpose of establishing a gurukul . That various buildings were built and certain lands and properties were fully purchased and/or acquired for the gurukul and such Gurukul was established, maintained and conducted at Anantagiri rambagh, Hyderabad in the first instance and thereafter moved to Ghatkesar in taluka East of Hyderabad District (presently Ranga Reddy District) about 16 miles away from the city of Hyderabad. It is popularly known as gurukul ghatkeshwar . The institution had been imparting education and functioned as a regular educational institution under the able supervision of the said late pandit Bansilal Vyas and his selfless colleagues and teachers. Pandit Bansilal vyas, who gave up everything for Gurukul Ghatkeshwar, breathed his lost on the night between 1st and 2nd September, 1956 in a train accident that took place between Jadcherla and Mahabubnagar.

( 2 ) THEREAFTER, it was thought fit and expedient to prepare a regular trust deed inter alia describing the functions, rights and obligations of trustees and regulating the procedure of their meetings and various other activities and functions which they or any one of them is called to perform as such a trustee and to make a formal declaration of the trust. That is how the trust known as "gurukul Ghatkeshwar Trust" had come into existence with the same object of establishing, maintaining, managing and taking over and conducting schools, colleges, multipurpose schools, hostels, libraries, reading rooms and to aid and assist all kinds of educational and philanthropic institutions for which purpose huge movable and immovable properties were acquired in the manner referred to hereinabove. Even by the early fifties the Trust had owned and possessed the landed properties of Ac. 649. 02 guntas in Izzatnagar, Khanamet, Hyderabad West in the State of Andhra Pradesh and some properties in Nanded of Maharastra State. The landed properties, except that are situated at Nanded, are in the vicinity of Hyderabad Metropolis. One B. Kishan Lal, became the managing trustee and was managing the trust properties from 1960 onwards. He sold away the entire immovable properties belonging to the trust admeasuring Ac. 627-00 either by himself or through his general Power of Attorney agents and accordingly executed the sale deeds and got them registered in favour of the purchasers. Various Cooperative House Building societies and individuals have purchased different extents of lands. One Sri Swamy Ayyappa Cooperative Housing Society Limited (petitioner in w. P. No. 14387 of 1999 out of which W. A. Nos. 1769 and 1792 of 2001 arise) purchased a total extent of Ac. 140-20 guntas of land in Survey Nos. 11/8 to 11/18 situated in Khanamet village near Madhapur in Ranga Reddy District during 1982 from the trust represented by its President under three different registered documents dated 22-5-1982, 2-7-1982 and 2-8-1982 respectively and took possession of th

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