1. The sum and substance of the Revision Petitioner’s case runs as follows:

The Revision petitioners herein filed a suit in O.S.No.120 of 2013 against the Respondents herein before the Sub-Court, Tuticorin for the relief of declaration to declare the Plaintiffs are the members of the Tuticorin-Nazareth diocese and are entitled to contest and vote in the Tuticorin-Nazareth Diocese and sought for consequential permanent injunction from preventing the Plaintiffs from contesting the forth coming election.

2. The Petitioners also moved an interlocutory application in I.A.No.359 of 2015 seeking for an order of interim injunction restraining the respondents from removing their names in the voters list and also from preventing the petitioners from contesting the election to the Diocese Council of CSI, Tuticorin-Nazareth.

3. The respondents resisted the application and filed detailed counter contending that the suit is hit by want of compliance with Order I, Rule 8 of CPC and the suit is also liable to be dismissed under Order II, Rule 2 of CPC as the present suit is being filed despite the pendency of previous suits relating to the Diocese Election. According to the respondents, the