and the minutes book of the meetings of the Parish Assembly (General Body) of the Church. In page 20 of Ext.B12, it is specifically admitted that the Constitution of the “Malankara Orthodox Suriyani Sabha” has been read over and accepted. Thereafter, in page 37 of the said book, it is specifically conceded that the Church had requested for pecuniary assistance from the Central Committee of the Malankara Sabha; and in fact, these aspects have been conceded to by DW1 without any reservation while he testified. It is also pertinent that various resolutions in this book are attested to by the Metropolitan of Kochi, who certainly is a functionary under the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and it thus conjointly renders it indubitable that the Parishioners had, consequent to the establishment of the Church in the year 1954, unequivocally accepted it to be a constituent of the Malankara Church. Therefore, whatever be the contentions of Sri.Sajan Varghese to the contrary, especially that throughout the history of the Malankara Church, there were two factions and that one of the Jacobite factions had consecrated the Church in the year 1953 as an independent one, though owing allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch - the Constitution which is available in Ext.B12 starts by saying that the scheme of
