P.P. Naolekar, J.-The decision in this revision shall also decide S.B. Civil Revision Petition No. 699/87 ‘Shri Abdeali Chanchuliwala Bobra vs. Shri Harimuddin’, S. B. Civil Revision Petition No. 700/87 ‘Shri Imran Hussain vs. Shri Hakmuddin and S. B. Civil Revision Petition No. 70 1/87 ‘Shri Mohammed Hussain vs. Shri Hakuimuddin’. In all these revisions, a common question of law and fact is involved.

2. Brief facts necessary for deciding the question involved in the case are that the plaintiffs-respondents are Dawoodi Bohras belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra Community, which is a religious denomination and whose spritual leader and the religious head is the Dai-Ul-Mutlaq.

.3. The plaintiffs have filed a suit claiming the relief :-

.(a) That the defendants by themselves, their servants and agents or any person styling himself as Bohra Youth Association or any member thereof be restrained by permanent injunction from preventing the plaintiffs and other Dawoodi Bohras owing allegiance to their spititual leader and religious head, the Dai-Ul-Mutlaq from entering the Masjids/ mosques as described in the plaint and from offering or participating in the Imamat/ Jamaat Namaz/ prayers