ORDER :

The petitioners are before this Court seeking various prayers like issuance of writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents not to violate their fundamental rights; not to move the idol; not to dislocate or dispossess or shift any property of Kamsagara Beeralingeshwara Temple to any other place.

2. Heard Smt. Lakshmy Iyengar, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners, Smt. Rashmi Patel, learned High Court Government Pleader for respondents 1 to 4 and Sri K.S. Harish, learned counsel for respondents 5 to 21.

3. Brief facts that lead the petitioners to this Court in this petition, as borne out from the pleadings, are as follows:

The petitioners claim to be the residents of Doddathekalavatti Village, Hosadurga Taluk, Chitradurga District and belong to Hori Kuruba community. They have knocked the doors of this Court in the subject petition alleging that in the year 2020 pooja materials and properties of the newly constructed Kamsagara Beeralingeshwara and Hinde Mallikarjunaswamy Temple including the idol have been attempted to be shifted to old Kamsagara Beeralingeshwara and Hinde Mallikarjunaswamy Temple. It is contended that Kamsagara Beeralingeshwara Templ