2026:MHC:175

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

Date of Reserving the Judgment Date of Pronouncing the Judgment

19.11.2025 12.01.2026

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.V.KARTHIKEYAN

and

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.VIJAYAKUMAR

A.S.(MD)Nos.84, 85 and 103 of 2016, 156 & 157 of 2024

and

Cross Objection (MD)No.36 of 2024

&

C.M.P.(MD)Nos.5441, 5442, 6649, 7999, 8003 & 8004 of 2016 & 2643 of 2018

A.S.(MD)No.84 of 2016:-

1.Shifa Housing (P) Ltd.,

Through its Managing Director,

M.K.M. Mohamed Sherif,

No.82, Kailasapuram Middle Street,

Tirunelveli Junction.

2.M.K.M.Mohamed Sherif

3.M.Aysha Dowladh ... Appellants / Defendants 1 to 3

vs.

1.Sankaranarayana Swami, 11th day Aadi Thapasu Mandagapadi Utsavam Fund, Now known as Kuttlammal Religious and Charitable Trust, By its sole Trustee Sri.V.S.Velayutham, No.125, Thilagarpuram Main Road, Ambasamuthiram Taluk, Tirunelveli District. ... 1^st Respondent / Plaintiff

2.Arulmigu Gomathiambal Sametha Sri Sankara Narayana Swami Deity, Through its Executive Officer, Arulmigu Sankaranarayana Swami Devasthanam, Sankarankoil ... 2^nd Respondent /

4th Defendant

3.Khader Mohamed Hussain

4.C.Krishnan

5.Lakshmi Krishnan

6.V.Sankaravadivelu Doss 7.T.L.S.Sreeramakrishnan

8.I.Susila Jayarani

9.T.Thiraviam

10.K.Ramamurthy

11.A.Arumugam

12.M.Yasin Monnan Mohamed

13.M.Abdul Kareen

14.Kader Mohideen Kader

15.A.Raja

16.V.Rajendran

17.A.Swarnalatha

18.Alphonsa

19.D.Mensil Fathima

20.R.Valli

21.S.Sundaresh Babu

22.Latha Mahendra Mani

23.J.Vijaya

24.Shilpa Juliet

25.S.Sudalaimuthu

26.P.Gomathi Lakshmi

27.P.Solomon

28.Pheras Hameed

29.B.Subasree 30.Ganapathy

31.Singaravelan Gopalakrishnan

32.R.Sankaran

33.S.Venkatachalam

34.V.Saratha

35.S.P.S.Subramanian

36.F.Arulanatham

37.P.Inbaselvi Sivaji

38.T.Sureka

39.A.Nowsath

40.George Xavier 41.Joseph Xavier

42.Mohammed Kaja Mohideen

43.T.P.S.H.Parthiban Ramsait

44.N.Padmanabhan

45.S.Shanmugasundaram

46.P.Ravikumar

47.S.Thirumalaikumar

48.M.Karthik

49.S.Rajeshkumar 50.M.Chellammal

51.N.Sankar Kumar

52.V.Kanthimathi 53.M.Tamil Selvi

54.S.Ravi 55.R.Valli

56.M.Lidwin Mary

57.M.Sivasamy

58.G.Kalyani

59.R.Subramanian

60.V.Annamalai

61.A.Kannan

62.K.Hariharan

63.S.Manikandan

64.R.Meenakshi

65.M.P.Shanmuganathan

66.G.Suresh

67.R.R.Muthulakshmi

68.P.Subramanian

69.P.Easwaramurthy

70.S.Murugan

71.A.Ahmed Rafi 72.K.Mahadevan

73.A.Jawahar Beevi

74.Gnansampathar Muthusattanathan

75.K.Ramanathan

76.Vasanthi Ramanathan

77.Asan Anisha

78.Jayapadmanabhan

79.S.Ibrahimmal

80.K.N.Ramani

81.P.Ramesh Kannan

82.Alima Anwar

83.Sethuraman Vinod

84.N.Rajesh Narayanan

85.Indra

86.S.Ayisha Latha

87.M.Thirumalaikumar

88.R.Mahadevan

89.J.Ramdevi

90.R.Sakthivel

91.S.Sivakumar 92.K.R.Ramani

93.Minor N.Irfana, D/o.Late. Naina Mohamed, Rep. through her Mother and Guardian, Sarabanu

94.D.Sundaravalli

95.S.Yadhava Krishnan

96.A.Hemayun Kabir

97.M.Kadar Meeran Mohideen

98.G.Manipushan

99.Fathima Banu Majahirin

100.Sareena Abdul Kader

101.L.Pushpa

102.S.Subramanian ... Respondents 3 to 102 /

Defendants 5 to 104 PRAYER : Appeal Suit filed under Section 96 and Order XLI Rule 1 of Civil Procedure Code against the common judgment and decree dated 28.04.2016 passed in O.S.No.117 of 2010, on the file of I Additional District Court, Tirunelveli.

For Appellants : Mr.G.Prabhu Rajadurai For R1 : Mr.V.Raghavachari Senior Counsel for Mr.P.Thiagarajan For R2 : Mr.M.P.Senthil For R4, R5, R7 to R17, R22 to R39, R42 to R44, R48, R50, R52, R54 to R59, R61, R62, R64, R66, R67, R69 to R73, R75 to R77, R79, R82 to R86, R91, R93 to R95, R97 and R102 : Mr.S.Sathish Rajan For R18, R19, R21, R40, R41, R45, R47, R49, R60, R63 and R68 : No Appearance A.S.(MD)No.85 of 2016:-

1.Shifa Housing (P) Ltd., Through its Managing Director, M.K.M. Mohamed Shafi, No.82, Kailasapuram Middle Street, Tirunelveli Junction.

2.M.K.M.Mohamed Shafi

3.M.Aysha Dowladh ... Appellants / Defendants 3 to 5 vs.

1.Arulmigu Sankara Narayana Swami Thirukoil, Sankarankoil, Through its Assistant Commissioner /

Executive Officer, ... 1^st Respondent / Plaintiff

2.Arulmigu Sankaranarayana Swami Thirukoil, 11th day Aadi Thapasu Mandagapadi Utsavam Fund, Now known as Kuttlammal Religio