A.B.PAL
Congregational Church of India (Maraland), Serkawr Group – Appellant
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Congregational Church of India (Maraland), Saiha Group – Respondent
A.B. Pal, J.
1. In this second round of appeal the challenge is to the order dated 19.4.2006 passed by Additional District Magistrate (J), Saiha District, Saiha in Revised Order Application No. 1 of 2006 whereby his earlier order dated 7.3.2005 in Civil Revision No. 1 of 2005, which was set aside and quashed by this Court in RFA No. 3 of 2005, has been confirmed after rehearing on remand.
2. The case has a chequered career with its genesis in a dispute over certain Church properties between two factions carrying their quarrel to the doors of the court. From a careful reading of the original judgment in Title Suit No. 2 of 2004 and other materials on record the admitted position emerging from the controversies and the background facts may be noticed thus:
In 1905 Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Reginald Arthur Lorrain established Lakher Pioneer Mission at London. They came to Serkawr (Maraland) in 1907 and named the Church there as Lakher Church. In 1961 Lakher Church was renamed as Lakher Independent Evangelical Church (LIEC). In 1966 it was again renamed as Mara Independent Evangelical Church followed by a further renaming as Independent Church of Maraland (ICM). In 1989 the followers of t
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