MC 3022/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMITAVA ROY HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE H. BARUAH (Amitava Roy, J) Heard Mr DK Mishra, learned senior counsel for the applicants assisted b y Mr S Sarma, Advocate; Mr AC Buragohain, learned Addl. Advocate General, Assam for the official respondents and Mr BC Das, Senior Advocate and Mr S Shyam, Advo cate for the other respondents. Referring to the averments made in Paragraph-6 of the application in par ticular, Mr Mishra has urged that without prejudice to the right of the applican ts to seek their relief in the higher forum, in the interim, appropriate interim orders are warranted for restraining the respondents from interfering with the functioning of the Kamakhya Debutter Board (for short, hereinafter referred to a s ’the Board’) vis-à-vis Sri Ma Kamakhya Temple and for maintaining status-quo of the arrangement in that regard as prevailed as on 25.10.2011, the date of del ivery of the judgment by this Court in W.A. Nos. 311 and 312 of 2004 & WP(C) No. 923/2005. According to the learned senior counsel, at 4.30 p.m. yesterday i.e. 30.10.2011 certain lumpen elements sought to forcibly enter into the office of the Board by using force and manhandled its office bearers and attempted to tak e control of the possession of the office. These averments have been affirmed to be true to the knowledge of the applicant Nos. 1 and 2. This application admittedly has been filed today, however, after s erving a copy thereof to the learned counsel for the respondents. Refuting the correctness of the allegations as above, the learned counse l for the respondents have at the threshold questioned the maintainability of th e instant interim application, the principal proceedings as referred to above ha ving meanwhile been finally disposed of on 25.10.2011. They have on instructions submitted that the office bearers of the Board have voluntarily handed over the control of the office and that not only the incident referred to in Paragraph - 6 of the application is a myth, no information having been lodged with the polic e about the same till this point of time, the application ought to be dismissed in limine as an afterthought. We have extended our anxious consideration to the rival contentions. As alluded hereinabove, W.A. Nos. 311 and 312 of 2004 and WP(C) No. 923/2005 had be en rejected vide the judgment and order dated 25.10.2011. Resultantly, the chall enge made therein to the vires of the Assam State Acquisition of Lands Belonging to Religious or Charitable Institutions of Public Nature Act, 1959 (for short, hereinafter referred to as ’the Act’) and also Section 25A integrated thereto by the Amendment made in 1987 had been negated. The locus standi of the appellants / writ petitioners has been held to be wanting and the Board has been determined to be bereft of any legal status. In this background, having regard to the exce ptional circumstances set out in the aforementioned judgment and order, conseque ntial directions have been issued to the jurisdictional Deputy Commissioner, Kam rup inter alia for holding elections to constitute the Managing Committee envisa ged by Section 25A of the Act. The election to the office of the Doloi(s) as per the customary practice as referred to therein has also been ordered. The Chief Secretary of the State has been requested, having regard to the overwhelming imp ortance of the process, to oversee the same for the timely and proper completion thereof. A period of three months has been set out to undertake the exercise as ordered. With the denial by the respondents of the correctness of the allegations pertaining to the incident referred to in the application, two irreconcilable v ersions of facts thus surface. Be that as it may, in the face of the conclusions arrived at in the judgment and order dated 25.10.2011, we consider it appropria te, in the attendant facts and circumstances and in supervening public interest, to issue the following directions: I) The jurisdictional Deputy Commissioner, Kamrup would cause to be taken i mmediate steps to ensure that: i) law and order prevails in and around the precincts of Sri Ma Kamakhya Te mple and the Devalayas in the immediate vicinity thereof and that no untoward in cident of any kind takes place; ii) the sacrosanct and solemn ambience of the sanctum sanctorium is maintain ed; iii) the daily activities of the aforenamed Temple(s) in all forms continue w ithout any hindrance, inconvenience and discomfort to the pilgrims, devotees, vi sitors and the members of the general public visiting the Temple(s). iv) an interim arrangement is made as a purely stopgap measure to secure the above, till the elections are held as ordered by this Court. Misc. case stands disposed in the above terms.