This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal arises out of Award dated 17-2-2012 in O.A. No.1442 of 2010 on the file of the A.P. Endowments Tribunal, Hyderabad (for short “the Tribunal”).

The concise facts leading to the filing of this appeal are stated hereunder:

Respondent No.1 approached the Deputy Commissioner, Guntur, under Section 87(1)(h) of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for short “the 1987 Act”) for declaring him as a Member of the Family of the Founders of Sri Vallabharayeswara Swamy Temple, Pamidipadu Agraharam Village, Narasaraopet Mandal, Guntur District (for shout “the Temple”). Respondent No.1 has stated in his application that the Temple was founded and established by his ancestors in the year 1050 with their own funds and in their own land and they have managed the Temple as Hereditary Trustees for generations by performing daily services, celebrating necessary utsavams and carrying on the Temple affairs without any blemish; that the Inam Fair Register dated 17-11-1860 shows the land was endowed by respondent No.1’s fore-fathers in favour of the Temple; and that column no.4-A of the Property Register of the Temple contains