The petitioner, a company incorporated under the Companies Act 1956, has filed this writ petition seeking a ruling on the threshold jurisdiction of the A.P. Endowments Tribunal, Hyderabad in entertaining Original Application (O.A.) No.21 of 2008 filed by the 5th respondent, viz., Sri Udasin Mutt, seeking removal of the petitioner from encroachment of subject land under the provisions of Section 83 of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (Act 33/2007) and to quash the proceedings in the said Original Application declaring the same as without jurisdiction. In substance and in effect, the petitioner is seeking a writ in the nature of Writ of Prohibition.

2. The petitioner with the present name “Gulf Oil Corporation Limited” claims to be a company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act 1956. According to the petitioner originally the company was incorporated as “Indian Detonators Limited on 20.04.1961 and the said name was changed w.e.f. 14.05.1974 as “IDL Chemicals Limited”, which was again changed as “IDL Industries Limited w.e.f. 31.10.1995. The name was again changed as “Gulf Oil Corporation Limited” w.e.f. 22.08.2002