JUDGMENT :

As the issue involved in these appeals is one and the same, these matters are taken up together for disposal by this Common Judgment.

2. The facts in these appeals are similar and identical, therefore C.M.A.No.245 of 2023 is taken as lead case, and the facts therein are referred to for convenience.

3. The impugned application in O.A No.303 of 2012 was filed by the petitioners/respondents herein under Section 83 of A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act 30 of 1987 (for short “the Act”), against the respondent/appellant herein declaring that the respondent as an encroacher and also directing him to deliver vacant possession of the petition schedule property, failing which liberty may be given to the 2nd applicant temple to take possession of the same, beside costs. The appellant herein is the respondent and the appellants are the petitioners in O.A.No.303 of 2012 on the file of the A.P. Endowments Tribunal at Pedakakani (for short “The Tribunal”).

4. For the sake of convenience the parties hereinafter referred to as arrayed in O.A No.303 of 2012 on the file of the Tribunal.

5. The 2nd petitioner temple Sri Vinayaka Swamy Temple, Ponnaguru village, i