SUBBA RAO, RAMASWAMI GOUNDER
Prattipati Dandaiah Petitioners. in – Appellant
Versus
Nori Venkatarama Dikshitulu, Managing Trustee of Sri Brah- meswaraswami Temple at Vatticherukur, Guntur Taluk – Respondent
This Civil Revision Petition and the Writ Petition arise out of the same matter.
The facts are: In Vatticherukur village in Guntur taluk, there is a temple known as Sri Brahmeswaraswami temple. The archaka of this temple was Prattipati Dandaiah. He seems to have been practically managing or more appropriately mismanaging the affairs of this temple and the Hindu Religious Endowments Board has intervened. From the order of the Hindu Religious Endowments Board, Annexure to order No.8870 dated 18th November, 1949, it appears that this archaka has been dismissed from service. The Board has appointed as the managing trustee of this temple Sri Nori Venkatarama Dikshitulu in its order No.1943 dated 5th July, 1947. The dismissed archaka who has been managing the properties claimed as the endowments of the temple refused to hand over possession of the properties to the deity by its managing trustee. Then two sets of proceedings had arisen. The managing trustee filed O.P.No.149 of 1949 before the District Judge of Guntur under section 78 of Madras Act II of 1927 for delivery of possession of the temple properties. This dismissed archaka contended that these properties were granted to t
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