1. This Civil Revision Petition arises out of an order by which the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board removed the petitioner from the post of Mutawalli under Section 64 of The Wakf Act, 1995.

2. I have heard Mrs. Hema Sampath, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mr. V. Lakshmi Narayanan, learned counsel appearing for the first respondent-Wakf Board.

3. At the time when the revision petition came up for admission, I had a doubt about the maintainability of the revision petition, without first exhausting the remedy before the Wakf Tribunal and hence I directed the learned counsel on record for the petitioner to serve notice on the Standing Counsel for the Wakf Board. Thereafter, I heard the counsel on both sides only on the question as to whether the petitioner has an alternative remedy of approaching the Wakf Tribunal, against the order of the Wakf Board impugned in the revision petition. Therefore the present order is confined only to this legal issue and I have not addressed myself to the merits of the controversy.

4. The doubt as to whether the petitioner could approach the Wakf Tribunal against the order impugned in the revision, has arisen on account of th