JUDGMENT :

Prashant Kumar Mishra, J.

This intra-court appeal would call in question the legality and validity of the order dated 25.03.2022 passed by the learned single Judge, dismissing the writ petition preferred by the petitioners seeking issuance of a writ, order or direction declaring the action of the respondents, particularly, that of respondents 2 to 5 in shifting/relocating the idol/deity of “Sri Mahankali Ammavaru” installed on 15.03.1976 in accordance with the Hindu Agamasastras, rites and rituals from the sanctum sanctorum of Sri Mahankali Ammavari temple situated at Issappalem village, hamlet of Mulakaluru, Narasaraopet Mandal, Guntur District and also the tomb with bust of Gunji Chukkamma from the place now located within the precincts of the temple, on the pretext of reconstruction (Jirnoddarana), as illegal, arbitrary, opposed to Hindu dharma, faith, rituals and sentiments of the devotees of the locality in particular and all over the State in general and the objects and reasons of the A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (for short, “the 1987 Act”) and violative of Articles 25 and 26 of the Constitution of India and consequently d