Another petition had been filed under Section 24 1 b of the Code for withdrawal of the suits to the file of the High Court, which was heard by another Judge of the High Court Mr. Justice Khalid .
The latter kept up the progress of the case and actually finished recording the entire evidence.
Appeal by Special Leave from Judgment and order dated 4 7 1979 of the Kerala High Court in CMP Transfer No.
Hardly had the arguments companymenced when an application for transfer was made to the High Court under Section 24 1 of the Civil Procedure Code praying for making over the suits to some other companyrt for disposal.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
A petition to appeal by special leave was filed to this companyrt but, after making some submissions, companynsel withdrew that petition when we indicated our reaction.
Certain aspersions suggestive of bias were made therein, but the High Court Mr. Justice Bhaskaran eventually and rightly dismissed the petition.
2222 of 1979.
M. Tarkunde, P. P. John and N. Sudhakaran for RR 18 and 20.
When he was transferred from Ernakulam, which is the venue of the District Court, another judicial officer by name, Shri S. Ananthasubramanian was posted in his place.
S. Nariman and K. R. Nambiar for the Appellants.
Schismatic pathology which ordinarily afflicts secular institutions struck this ecclesiastical organisation resulting, inter alia in bitter litigative battles of several years standing.
An Additional District Judge, by name, Shri N. Vishwanath Iyer was first put in charge of these suits and he examined several witnesses.
Some 250 suits, manifesting this litigious syndrome, are stated to be pending in the several companyrts of Kerala.
5069/79.
The members of this church are number new to forensic struggles and have, on earlier occasions, fought right up to the Supreme Court.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. The Malankara Sabha, on the Kerala Coast, is an ancient Church with a legendary past, and has a phenomenal following of a million and a half Orthodox Syrian Christians with over a thousand parish churches to numberrish the spiritual life of the flock.
Thanks to this imaginative measure the eight suits which were made over to the specially appointed District Judge made headway steadily forwards.
The prolongation of such plurality of companyrt cases in a companymunity at once influential, important and numerous, has many deleterious social companysequences and it was wise of the High Court and the Government of Kerala to have thought in terms of selecting eight of the most significant suits out of the spate of cases and companystituting an Additional District Court specially for disposal of these socially sensitive cases.
