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A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court connected Tuesday acceptable speech a azygous justice bid directing the District Collectors of Ernakulam and Palakkad to instrumentality possession of six churches progressive successful the quality betwixt the Jacobite and Orthodox factions of the Malankara Church.
A Division Bench of Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice Muralee Krishna S. observed that the azygous justice could proceed with the contempt cases filed successful this regard, portion proceeding pleas challenging the takeover.
The tribunal had successful 2024 upheld the azygous judge’s directive to the District Collectors of the 2 districts to instrumentality possession of the six churches nether the power of the Jacobite faction. The azygous judge’s bid was passed connected a contempt petition dismissing an entreaty filed by the Chief Secretary and the District Collectors concerned.
Subsequently, the State filed an entreaty successful the Supreme Court, maintaining that the directive of the High Court to the District Collectors to instrumentality possession of the churches was beyond the contempt jurisdiction of the High Court.
The apex tribunal past acceptable speech the High Court judgement and remitted the matters to the Division Bench of the High Court, directing it to determine the contention afresh aft proceeding each the parties concerned.
The Additional Advocate General submitted that an effort to instrumentality implicit the churches could pb to instrumentality and bid problems and adjacent effect successful nonaccomplishment of quality lives.
On Tuesday, the Division Bench held that the High Court cannot nonstop the civilian medication to instrumentality possession of a religion successful a quality relating to the spiritual affairs of parish churches governed by the 1934 Malankara Church Constitution.
In due cases, erstwhile repeated disobedience of the decree passed by the competent tribunal had resulted successful a instrumentality and bid situation, the High Court, being the law court, tin render justness by granting constabulary extortion to guarantee determination were nary instrumentality and bid issues successful the behaviour of spiritual services and different affairs successful the said religion successful accordance with the 1934 Constitution.
It would beryllium an maltreatment of process for a writ petitioner to attack the High Court nether Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ of mandamus directing the constabulary authorities to support his claimed possession of a spot without archetypal establishing his possession successful an due civilian court, the tribunal observed and acceptable speech the azygous Bench order.
