CAV JUDGMENT

(PER: HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. JUSTICE N. V. ANJARIA)

Heard learned advocate Mr. K.S. Raghuram for the petitioner, learned advocate Mr. Pawan Kumar for learned advocate Mr. H. Devendrappa for respondent No.1, learned Advocate General Mr. K. Shashi Kiran Shetty along with learned Additional Government Advocate Smt. Niloufer Akbar for respondent No.2 and learned Senior Advocate Mr. Ashok Haranahalli along with learned advocate Mr. Sandeep Patil for respondent Nos.3 to 53.

2. This petition, in the nature of public interest litigation, is filed by the petitioner-Sanathana Kalakshetra which claims to be a cultural society registered under the SOCIETIES REGISTRATION ACT .

2.1 The case of the petitioner is that the temple known as Muneshwara Swamy Temple is constructed unauthorisedly on the footpath of the 9^th main road, Jayanagar area of Bengaluru city, an