CHALLA KODANDA RAM, J.

1. These Writ Petitions filed by various religious institutions, charitable endowment trusts and some of the trustees/Executive Officers of temples are heard together, as, they all, in essence, questioned either invocation of the provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short, 'the 2005 Act') with respect to their organizations or the circulars issued by the government directing the respective organizations to designate and constitute 'Public Information Officers' and other officers to operationalize the mechanism for providing information under the 2005 Act.

2. Insofar as State of Telangana is concerned, counter-affidavits filed in W.P. No. 21677 of 2007 is requested to be taken as a common counter-affidavit in all the Writ Petitions and insofar as the State of Andhra Pradesh is concerned, they have also filed a common counter-affidavit, to be treated as the one in respect of all the Writ Petitions. In addition, on behalf of the State of Andhra Pradesh, the letter addressed by the Commissioner, Endowments Department, to the learned Government Pleader bearing No. Lr.In.RC. No. U1/Courts/13703/2012, dated 20.07.2018 was placed on record. The