SRI MARTHANDA VARMA (D) THR. LRs. vs STATE OF KERALA

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2020 Supreme(SC) 444

UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA
SRI MARTHANDA VARMA (D) THR. LRs. – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
For the Parties :P. B. Suresh Vipin Nair, T.K. Anand Padmanabhan, Karthik Jayshankar, Sughosh S.N., Krishnan Venugopal, V. Shyamohan, Kuriakose Varghese, Abir Phukan, Gaurav Ray, Udai Rathore, Surya Prakash, Nishe Rajen Shonker, Pratap Venugopal, Surekha Raman, Ayushi Gaur, Akhil Abraham Roy, M/S. K J John And Co., Gautam Narayan, Venkita Subramoniam T.R, V. K. Sidharthan, Ramesh Babu M. R., M.P. Devanath, K. R. Sasiprabhu, M.K.S. Menon, Jishnu M. L, Priyanka Prakash, G. Prakash, Sivan Madathil, Usha Nandini V., Biju P. Raman, M.S. Vishnu Sankar, Balaji Srinivasan, Garima Jain, Pallavi Sengupta, Aishwarya Choudhary, Lakshmi Rao, Mayank Kshirsagar, Srishti Govil, Vaishnavi Subrahmanyam, Arunava Mukherjee, M/S. K J John And Co., Sumit Attri, Liz Mathew, Ranjan Kumar, M. P. Vinod, P. S. Sudheer, K. Rajeev, R. Sathish, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Deepti R. Mehrotra, Ankit Agarwal, P. B. Suresh, V. Ramasubramanian, Sanand Ramakrishnan, J. Sai Deepak, Suvidutt M.S., Shaktiki Sharma, Avinash Sharma, Abhishek Avadani, Vibhor Ahlawat, Yogesh Kumar, Abhijeet Singh Advocate, Praveen Swarup, Manju Jetley, Abid Ali Beeran P, Sarath Janardhanan, Ranbir Singh Yadav, A. Raghunath, Sajith. P, C. K. Sasi Advocates

JUDGMENT

Uday Umesh Lalit, J.

Leave granted in Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 11295 of 2011 and Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 12361 of 2011.

2. Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma who as Ruler of Covenanting State of Travancore had entered into a Covenant in May 1949 with the Government of India leading to the formation of the United State of Travancore and Cochin, died on 19.07.1991. His younger brother Uthradam Thirunal Marthanda Varma and the Executive Officer of Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Thiruvananthapuram (hereinafter referred to as 'the Temple') as appellants 1 and 2 respectively have filed these appeals challenging the judgment and order dated 31.01.2011 passed by the High Court¹[The High Court of Kerala at Ernakulum] in Writ Petition (Civil) No.36487 of 2009 and in Writ Petition (Civil) No.4256 of 2010.

(A) Writ Petition (C) No.36487 of 2009 was filed by one T.P. Sundara Raj an, a practising Advocate praying that the High Court be pleased to issue a Writ of Quo Warranto directing the appellant No.2 herein to show the authority under which he was holding the pos

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2020 Supreme(SC) 444

UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRASRI MARTHANDA VARMA (D) THR. LRs. – AppellantVersusSTATE OF KERALA – Respondent

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UDAY UMESH LALIT, INDU MALHOTRA
SRI MARTHANDA VARMA (D) THR. LRs. – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent