A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court comprising Chief Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice M. Satyanarayana Murthy on Monday heard the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by P. Srinivasulu, which challenged the amendment made to the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions Endowments Act, 1987 to reduce the 21-member strength of the A.P. Dharmika Parishad to just a four-member body.
Appearing for the petitioner, advocate Umesh Chandra P.V.G. informed the court that by reducing the strength of the Dharmika Parishad to a four-member body, the government had made it an exclusive executive body in clear violation of a judgment passed by the Supreme Court.
