1. Secretary of the Managing Committee, Arultharum Alikkal Athi Sivan Temple, situated at Kunnam Village, (Sivapuram), Iyankamam, Kaliyakkavilai, Kanyakumari District, has filed the present writ petition, for a certiorarified mandamus to quash the resolution No. 167, dated 29.2.2008, passed by the President, Methukummal First Grade Panchayat, Munchirai Panchayat Union, Methukummal Post, Kanyakumari District, the third respondent herein and consequently, prayed for a direction to the respondents 1 to 3, to remove an arch put up by St. Mary’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Vandankanavilai Junction (Mariagiri), Kaliyakkavilai Post, Kanyakumari District, the fourth respondent herein.

2. According to the petitioner, his father had constructed, “Arultharum Alikkal Athi Sivan Temple” and it is maintained by the temple committee. Lord Siva is the God, worshiped by the village people. The petitioner has further submitted that during “Margazhi festival”, conducted in the first and second week of January,every year, the temple authorities would approach the third respondent, Panchayat, for permission to put up a temporary arch to welcome the worshipers of the deity, at Mariagiri –