(PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus as stated below.)

The prayer in the writ petition is for issuance of a writ of certiorarified mandamus, calling for the records of the third respondent pertaining to his order dated 24.11.2005 in OM A3 10008/2005 and quash the said order and consequently, direct the respondents to forbear from interfering the right of the petitioner in conducting the Full Gospel Pentecostal Church at Door No.10/31B, Madavillai Azhaganparai post, Kanyakumari District.

2.1. The petitioner is the President and Chief Bishop of the Church, viz., Full Gospel Pentecostal Church, which was established in the year 1933. A member of the said church, gifted some lands to the church and some lands were also purchased by the church. Prayer meetings were conducted in the said lands for the last 20 years. According to the petitioner, at the instigation of other religious people, two original suits before the District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate, Iraniel, were filed by certain persons against the prayer meetings conducted in the church, which were dismissed and in spite of it,