APHC010383192012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH Bench Sr.No:-6 [3552]

AT AMARAVATI WRIT APPEAL NO: 1459 of 2012 Sri Byragi Mutt, ...Appellant Vs.

K. Chandra Sekhar and Others ...Respondent(s)

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Advocate for Appellant: Mr. V. Venugopal Rao, Senior Counsel, appearing vice Mrs.Devi Subhashini Anne, Standing Counsel for Endowments Advocate(s) for Respondent(s): Mr. Sudhakar Ambati, Govt. Pleader for Endowments CORAM : T HE CHIEF JUSTICE DHIRAJ SINGH THAKUR SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN DATE : 10^th December 2025 Per DHIRAJ SINGH THAKUR, CJ (oral):

The present writ appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order, dated 31.07.2012, passed in W.P. No.29963 of 2011.

Briefly stated, the material facts are as under:

The petitioners had preferred the writ petition supra being aggrieved of the communication, dated 26.12.2008, addressed to the Sub-Registrar, Ongole in Prakasam District with a request not to register the properties relating to the charitable Hindu religious institutions under Section 22(A)(1)(c)

of the Registration (A.P. Amendments) Act, 2007, as the lands in question were required for maintenance of the charitable and religious institutions.

2. Section 22A prescri