Satyadeva Sannakaru Rythu Sangham, Peddapuram, East Godavari District, the petitioner herein, assails the proceedings dated 22.01.2005 of the Assistant Commissioner, Multi Zone-I, Endowments Department, Rajahmundry, East Godavari District, the fourth respondent, and the appellate order dated 16.09.2005 passed by the Regional Joint Commissioner, Multi Zone-I, Endowments Department, Kakinada, East Godavari District, the third respondent, in Appeal No.19 of 2005 confirming the same, whereby and whereunder it was held that the petitioner Sangham was not eligible to claim benefit under Section 82 of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for brevity, ‘the Act of 1987’). The petitioner Sangham seeks a consequential declaration that its members are landless poor persons and that they are entitled to the benefit of Section 82 of the Act of 1987 in respect of the lands held by them on lease belonging to Sri R.V.B.S.Choultry, Peddapuram, the fifth respondent.

2. This Court, by interim order dated 21.06.2007, directed status quo obtaining as on that day as to the nature and possession of the lands in question to be maintained for fo