C.R.

Ravindran, J.

The appellant is the 8th respondent in O.P.No.18798 of 1995. The first respondent is the petitioner and respondents 2 to 9 are respondents 1 to 7 and 9 respectively therein. By judgment delivered on 22.7.2002, in N.Sreedharan Nair v State of Kerala (2002 (3) KLT 307), the learned single Judge allowed the original petition. The 8th respondent in the original petition has, aggrieved thereby, filed this writ appeal. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as they are arrayed in the original petition. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

2. A parcel of land, 91 cents in extent, comprised of 15 cents in Survey No.1026, 34 cents in Survey No.1342 and 42 cents in Survey No.1421 of Ulloor Village, Trivandrum Taluk, was outstanding in the occupation of Viruthicars who were obliged to perform Oozhiyam services in Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, Trivandrum and Sree Balasubramanya-swamy Temple, Ulloor. The lands described above were in the occupation of Sri.Kumaran Velayudhan of Arakkal Veedu Tarwad, in whose favour the holding had been registered under the provisions of the Viruthi Proclamation 1061 (Travancore). Sri.Kumaran Velayudhan passe