C.T. RAVIKUMAR, J.

1. The Kshatriya Kshema Sabha claims to be a registered organization (under which enactment? It is not stated in the writ petition) filed this writ petition seeking the following reliefs:-

“(i) issue a Writ of Certiorari or any other Writ, Order or Direction to quash Exhibit-P3.

(ii) issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other Writ, Order or Direction commanding and compelling the respondents to provide polling stations to Purappeda Santhis of Sabarimala and Malikappuram temple in the temple premises or provide them postal vote facility for the up coming Lok Sabha elections.

(iii) issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other Writ, Order or Direction commanding and compelling the respondents to make a permanent arrangement to ensure voting facility to the Purappeda Santhis of various temples of the State of Kerala.”

2. Essentially, the grievance projected in the writ petition pertains to the rejection of the request to permit the Melsanthis of Sabarimala and Malikappuram Temples to cast postal vote or to provide them polling stations in the said temple premises by the Chief Electoral Officer. Ext.P3 to that effect came to be passed on a request in writing for the said pur