A private dispute between two half brothers is projected in these two writ petitions as a public law dispute and a relief is sought against the Registrar of Societies constituted under Section 2(l) of the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 (the Act).

The brief background of these cases as culled out from book pleadings and other documents is as follows. Late S.P.Sampathy started S.P.Sampathy’s Siva Sivani Educational Society (hereafter called, the Society). By reason of a judgment of the Court of District Judge, Ranga Reddy, in O.P.No.479 of 1997 the said Society is deemed to have been established in 1997 with Registration No.2906 of 1997. Indisputably, the said Educational Society has established Siva Sivani Public School at Sanga Reddy, Orchids International School at Budhera and another school near Kompally in Ranga Reddy District. The Society’s Managing Committee among others is father S.P.Sampathy, a son Shivaraj Sampathy, his wife Manjula Sampathy and another son Sailesh Sampathy. After death of father, disputes arose between Shivaraj and Sailesh. Sometime in 2003 Sailesh submitted a list of Office bearers to the Registrar of Societies as required under