ORAL ORDER :

1. Heard Mr. Chirag Angle, learned Counsel for the petitioner. Mr. D. Pangam, learned Advocate General, and Ms. M. Correia, learned Additional Government Advocate for the respondent nos.1 & 2, and Mr. Parag Wagle, the learned Counsel, appears for respondents nos.3 & 5. For the order which we propose to make an appearance of respondent no.4, who is incidentally the President of respondent no.3, is not required. Further, we are quite surprised that a Counsel appears for respondent no.3 but states that he has no instructions to appear on behalf of respondent no.4.

2. The petitioner, who claims to be a member/Mazan of Shree Sateri Shantadurga Devalaya alias Sateri Gramdevi of Xeldom, a Devasthan which is governed and controlled under the Regulamento Das Mazania (Devasthan Regulation), seeks an appropriate writ requiring respondent