ORDER

R. MAHADEVAN, J.

The prayer made in this writ petition is to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents 1 to 4 herein to resume the properties in Survey No. 1484/22 situated at Theppakulam Street, Tiruchendur Special Grade Town Panchayat and Survey Nos.268/6, 268/9, Keezha Tiruchendur Village, Tiruchendur Taluk, Thoothukudi District, belonging to Arulmigu Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Tiruchendur.

2. The petitioner claims to be an ardent devotee of the deity Lord Muruga and he frequently visits the subject temple for worship. According to him, the property called as Thuvadasi Madam comprised in Survey No. 1484/22 and other properties were purchased in the year 1924 and given to the temple for religious purposes. It is stated that upto the year 2005, the Government of Tamil Nadu had given subsidy for providing food to the devotees in the Thuvadasi Madam. Thus, except the Temple, no other individual or institution, has any right, title or interest over the said properties.

3. It is further averred in the writ petition that in the year 2005, the fifth respondent Trust was created with an oblique motive, to grab the Thuvadasi Madam and other temple properties and sell it to thir