ORDER

(By G.R.Swaminathan J.)

The writ petitioner is a resident of Kalapatti which falls within Coimbatore Corporation limit. He has filed this writ petition challenging the impugned communications issued by the District Collector, Coimbatore District and the RDO, Coimbatore North providing police protection to enable the sixth respondent herein to construct a church in the petition mentioned site.

2. This writ petition has been moved during the vacation sitting of this Court. When it was listed for admission on 21.05.2026, the counsel for the petitioner insisted on issuance of short notice. Even though urgency had been set out in the affidavit filed in support of this writ petition, we called upon the petitioner’s counsel to impress upon us as to why we should do so. The learned counsel submitted that following the change of Government headed by the Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri C.Joseph Vijay, certain fundamentalist organisations have become emboldened. He pointed out that the Hon’ble Speaker Shri JCD Prabhakar, who proclaims that he had distributed thousands of free copies of the Bible, quoted biblical verses in his inaugural address to the Legislative Assembly. He also added that