1. The Clergy is in Court. The Bishops are looking up to the Bar and the Bench. The sight is symbolic of the turbulent times that the society is passing through. What is the cause before the Court? An appeal against an order of interim injunction.

2. An application under 0.39 R.1 read with S.151 of the Code of Civil Procedure filed by the plaintiff-respondents has been allowed by the First Addl. District Judge, Ernakulam. The sole defendant has been "restrained by a temporary injunction order from acting as the Catholicos elect or Bishop and from entering into any of the Parish churches of Malankara Church, administered under 1934 constitution, coming within the Angamaly, Kandanadu and Cochin Dioceses of Malankara Church " Hence, this appeal by the defendant. A few facts as relevant for the decision of this Civil Miscellaneous Appeal may be briefly noticed.

3. The plaintiff-respondents filed the suit in their personal capacity as well as representatives of all the members of the Catholicos group of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The first respondent alleges that he is the Metropolitan of the Chengannur Diocese. The 2nd respondent claims that he is the Metropolitan