IMMANENI PANDURANGA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE defendants are the appellants in this appeal. The respondents filed a suit for declaration that the order of the Deputy Commissioner, Endowments, Gun-tur, dated 28-2-1977 in O. A. No. 66/75 holding that the Hanuman Temple situated at Bade Chowdi, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to as the Temple ) is a public temple, is null and void, inoperative and that the entry dated 11-11-1342 Fasli registering the temple in the Books of Endowments and the subsequent publications made are null and void, unauthorised, illegal and not binding on the plaintiffs.

( 2 ) THE case of the plaintiffs in brief is that their grand-father, Ram Harak Tiwari has purchased the site on 18-12-1302 Fasli from one Kondaiah under Ex. A-42, sale deed, constructed a super-structure with tin roof, which is used as his residence and has installed Hanuman idol in the said premises bearing No. 170, Residency Bazar, Hyderabad, which is now re-numbered as Municipal No. 4-2-123, Sultan Bazar, Hyderabad. Accoridng to the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs grandfather during his lifetime and after his death the plaintiffs father Gorakhnath Tiwari performed pooja and that after the

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