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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
V. GOPALA KRISHNA RAO
Angara Mosque, Rep. by its Mutavalli, Md. Madina Khan, Angara, Ramachandrapuram – Appellant
Versus
Sreenivasa Rice Mill, West Ghandrika, Rep. by its Partners – Respondent
Judgment :
V. GOPALA KRISHNA RAO, J.
The appeal is filed against the judgment and decree dated 23-3-1990 in O.S.No.56 of 1982 passed by the learned Subordinate Judge, Ramachandrapuram, East Godavari District. The suit was filed by the plaintiff Angara Mosque, represented by its Mutavalli Md. Madina Khan, against the defendants 1 to 12 for declaration that the plaint schedule property as a Wakf property and inalienable under law and for possession of the same after evicting the defendants therefrom and for costs of the suit.
2. The case of the plaintiff as narrated in the plaint, in brief, is as follows:
(a) It is pleaded that the plaint schedule property is part of the Wakf property that was endowed for the service of the mosque, more than hundred years ago. In the year 1860, the Inam Commissioner after due enquiry confirmed the schedule land as mosque service inam land of the Angara Mosque (plaintiff) and granted a title deed No.3561 to the then Mutavalli of the mosque. The said Mutavalli managed the property and rendered service to the mosque till 1949, when for the first time the then Mutavalli alienated illegally the said property by way of sale to the outsiders, who in their turn
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