This writ petition is filed seeking a declaration that the order passed by the 2nd respondent - Commissioner of Endowments - dated 18.8.2008 as well as the order of the 4th respondent - Assistant Commissioner of Endowments, Guntur - dated 1.11.2008 as arbitrary and illegal and consequently to direct the respondents to hand over the management of the 5th respondent temple as he was declared as founder trustee of the said temple.

2. The facts, which are not in dispute, are as under:

3. By order dated 22.10.1981 in O.A.No.61 of 1980 on the file of the Deputy Commissioner of Endowments, Guntur, the petitioner's application made under Section 77 (1) (c) of the A.P. Charitable Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1966 (Act 17 of 1966) for a declaration that he was the hereditary trustee of the 5th respondent temple was allowed and the said order became final. Pursuant thereto, the petitioner was managing the affairs of the temple even after the enactment of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (Act No.30 of 1987). While so, a trustee was appointed in the year 1996 by the 4th respondent without issuing any notice to the petitione