ORDER

This petition has been filed seeking for a direction to the respondents 2 and 4 herein to provide adequate police production for the petitioner and his family to enter and participate in Arulmigu Sri Pidari Amman Temple Festival and Mandagapadi without any hindrance by affording temple tax and other hereditary rituals as per the long-standing village custom and tradition and consequently direct the respondents 2 and 4 herein to take immediate action against the 5^th respondent and their men for practicing discrimination and excommunicating the petitioner for an inter-caste marriage in his family.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is a resident of Poruvai Village, Viralimalai Taluk, Pudukkottai District, where approximately 200 families reside. Out of these, about 60 families belong to the Chettiyar community, 30 families belong to t