ELIPE DHARMA RAO, J.

The challenge in this Writ Appeal is to the order passed by a learned single Judge of this Court dated 212. 1998 made in W.P.No.13280 of 1990, whereby the learned single Judge has affirmed the order of appointment of an Executive Officer to the Arulmighu Thirunarayanaswamy Thirukoil, Pudupettai, Thirupattur, by the first respondent.

2. The case of the appellant is that Arulmighu Thirunarayanaswamy Thirukoil, Pudupettai, Thirupattur is a private temple and his father Kanniappa Chettiar was the Managing Trustee of the temple. Originally, one Kanniappa Chettiar, who was the appellant’s father’s paternal grand father’s elder brother, along with one Muniappa Chettiar, who is also related to the said Kanniappa Chettiar have purchased a site at Pudupet on 18. 1985 and built a place of worship, wherein Thiru Narayanaswami was worshipped by ‘bhajan’ and it was known as ‘Thiru Narayanaswami Bhajanai Koil’ and the same seems to have ruined, but rebuilt later, on a large scale, by the paternal grand father of the appellant on 12. 1918 and also performed ‘Kumbabhishekam’ on 17. 1921. It is seen from the records that the paternal grand father of the appellant and