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R. SUBRAMANIAN, N. SENTHILKUMAR
Meera Bai – Appellant
Versus
Sri Kandasamy Temple and Sri Muthukumarasamy Devasthanam – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
R.SUBRAMANIAN, J.
Prayer: Original Side Appeal filed under Order XXXVI Rule 1 of the Original Side Rules, r/w. Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, against the judgment and decree dated 30.07.2014 made in O.P.No.651 of 2000.
Challenge in this Original Side Appeal is to the order of the learned Single Judge made in O.P.No.651 of 2000 and Application No.1257 of 2014. The said Original Petition was filed purportedly under Section 34 of the Indian Trust Act seeking permission to sell the property. The petitioners would claim that under a registered settlement deed dated 30.09.1935 executed by one Palaverkadu Rajagopala Chettiar, the property was settled on his grandson, T.K.Balasubramania Chettiar with a direction to pay the debts due to one Ramachandra Tarwadi and perform the Kathiri Utsavam annualy for Sri Kandasamy in Sri Muthukumarasamy Temple Devasthanam, Rasappa Chetty Street, George Town, Chennai. Claiming that the property should be sold and at the same time undertaking to deposit the portion of the sale proceeds to any Nationalized Bank in order to perform to Kathiri Utsavam out of the interest that the deposit earns, the appellants sought for permission for sale of the pr
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