{"id":182037,"date":"2009-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nandiyarvalli-narayanan-vs-commissioner-on-12-march-2009"},"modified":"2018-06-05T21:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:15:35","slug":"nandiyarvalli-narayanan-vs-commissioner-on-12-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nandiyarvalli-narayanan-vs-commissioner-on-12-march-2009","title":{"rendered":"Nandiyarvalli Narayanan &#8230; vs Commissioner on 12 March, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Nandiyarvalli Narayanan &#8230; vs Commissioner on 12 March, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 38174 of 2008(T)\n\n\n1. NANDIYARVALLI NARAYANAN NAMBOODIRI,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. COMMISSIONER, MALABAR DEVASWOM BOARD,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, MALABAR\n\n3. NARAYANAN NAMBOODIRI, THEKKEDATH MANA,\n\n4. GOVERNMENT OF KERALA,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SMT.PRABHA R.MENON\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.P.N.KRISHNANKUTTY ACHAN(SR.)\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.R.RAMAN\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.S.GOPINATHAN\n\n Dated :12\/03\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n                P.R.RAMAN &amp; P.S.GOPINATHAN, JJ.\n                  ------------------------------------------\n                       W.P.(C) No.38174 of 2008\n                     ------------------------------------------\n                 Dated, this the 12h day of March, 2009\n\n                               JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>P.R.Raman, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>            The dispute is between the petitioner and the third<\/p>\n<p>respondent regarding their right as to who is entitled to be the thantri<\/p>\n<p>of the Sri Tricherummanna alias Sri Kottiyoor Temple.           While the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner in the writ petition would submit that he is the seniormost<\/p>\n<p>member entitled to be the thantri of the temple, the third respondent<\/p>\n<p>would submit that he is the rightful claimant for the above post. The<\/p>\n<p>question as to whether the petitioner or the third respondent has got a<\/p>\n<p>preferential claim to be appointed as thantri of the temple is a civil<\/p>\n<p>dispute. Evidence will have to be taken both oral and documentary<\/p>\n<p>and,    as a matter of fact,       both sides have placed voluminous<\/p>\n<p>documents. Being a disputed question of fact, it is necessary to enter<\/p>\n<p>a finding after taking        evidence in the matter, both oral and<\/p>\n<p>documentary. Therefore, declining jurisdiction under Article 226 of the<\/p>\n<p>Constitution of India and relegating the parties to the civil court for<\/p>\n<p>resolving their dispute, this writ petition is closed.<\/p>\n<p>                                             P.R.RAMAN, JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>                                          P.S.GOPINATHAN,JUDGE<br \/>\nvns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Nandiyarvalli Narayanan &#8230; vs Commissioner on 12 March, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 38174 of 2008(T) 1. NANDIYARVALLI NARAYANAN NAMBOODIRI, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. COMMISSIONER, MALABAR DEVASWOM BOARD, &#8230; Respondent 2. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, MALABAR 3. NARAYANAN NAMBOODIRI, THEKKEDATH MANA, 4. GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, For Petitioner :SMT.PRABHA R.MENON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nandiyarvalli Narayanan ... vs Commissioner on 12 March, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/nandiyarvalli-narayanan-vs-commissioner-on-12-march-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nandiyarvalli Narayanan ... vs Commissioner on 12 March, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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