{"id":228620,"date":"2008-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-vijayakumar-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-25-august-2008"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T09:10:51","slug":"s-vijayakumar-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-25-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/s-vijayakumar-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-25-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"S.Vijayakumar vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 25 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">S.Vijayakumar vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 25 August, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 25452 of 2008(E)\n\n\n1. S.VIJAYAKUMAR, AGED 56,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE SECRETARY, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD\n\n3. THE ASST. DEVEASWOM  COMMISSIONER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.GEORGE MATHEW\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.K.N.VENUGOPALA PANICKER, SC, TDB\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.R.RAMAN\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR\n\n Dated :25\/08\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n          P.R.RAMAN &amp; T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JJ.\n\n                    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~\n                      W.P.(C).No.25452 of 2008-E\n                    ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~\n\n                 Dated this the 25thday of August, 2008\n\n                            J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>RAMAN, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>      This is a writ petition seeking a direction to the respondent to<\/p>\n<p>permit the respondent to conduct boat race at Sreevaraham Temple<\/p>\n<p>pond, Thiruvananthapuram. The petitioner is a citizen and Chairman<\/p>\n<p>of the Onam Aghosha Committee. In the writ petition it is not shown<\/p>\n<p>that the petitioner has got any legal right to conduct any such vallam<\/p>\n<p>kali in the temple pond in the absence of which he cannot seek for a<\/p>\n<p>writ of mandamus.        He himself has produced Ext.P1 rejecting a<\/p>\n<p>similar prayer made in 2006, that too based on a decision of this<\/p>\n<p>Court to the effect that the temple can be used only for religious<\/p>\n<p>purposes and not for other purposes. That order has become final and<\/p>\n<p>there is no challenge at all. In such circumstances, we find that there<\/p>\n<p>is no merit in this writ petition. It is accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>                                                   P.R.RAMAN,<br \/>\n                                                      Judge<\/p>\n<p>                                       T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR,<br \/>\n                                                      Judge<br \/>\nms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court S.Vijayakumar vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 25 August, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 25452 of 2008(E) 1. S.VIJAYAKUMAR, AGED 56, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE SECRETARY, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD 3. THE ASST. DEVEASWOM COMMISSIONER, For Petitioner :SRI.GEORGE MATHEW For Respondent :SRI.K.N.VENUGOPALA [&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-228620","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 v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>S.Vijayakumar vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 25 August, 2008 - 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\/s-vijayakumar-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-25-august-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"S.Vijayakumar vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 25 August, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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