F. M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, J.

The Commissioner of HR & CE Department, Chennai is the applicant. The prayer in the application is to bring the Charities and the Religious Endowments and other schedule mentioned properties which had been directed to be performed in C.S. No. 177 of 1939 be henceforth brought under the purview of the authorities constituted under the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act 1959.

2. The brief facts which are required to be stated are that this Court while dealing with application Nos. 5159 of 2006 and 46 of 2007 in C.S. No. 177 of 1939 concerning the grant of licence in respect of a hundi kept in a Temple called ‘Muneeswarar Temple’ popularly known as ‘Body Guard Muneeswarar Temple’, directed the Administrator General and Official Trustee (AG and OT) to address the applicant herein to send a proposal as to how best the said Muneeswarar Temple and hundi collection therein could be safely preserved and also directed the applicant to give a report. When the AG and OT addressed a letter to the applicant dated, 13.2.2007 in pursuance of such orders passed by this Court on 22.1.2007, the applicant herein filed a report dated 9.3.2007