ORDER :

1. In these two writ petitions, the petitioners sought an appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring order of the 2nd respondent-Commissioner, Endowments Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, dated 05.01.2022 being illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987, vitiated by mala-fides, colourable exercise of power and unconstitutional.

2. The 1st petitioner in W.P. No. 1502 of 2022, Sri. Dhulipalla Veeraiah Chowdary Memorial Trust, Vadlamudi village, is a registered trust. The trust deed in respect thereof was entered into on 17.09.1994 and it was registered on the same day in the office of the Joint Sub Registrar, Guntur. The 2nd petitioner in W.P. No. 1502 of 2022 is described as the donor in this deed of trust while the 1st petitioner in W.P. No. 1470 of 2022 is also one of the trustees of this trust. The 2nd petitioner in W.P. No. 1470 of 2022 was former trustee of the same.

3. This trust, according to the petitioners in both these wri