Bungalow situated in Siripurm junction, Visakhapatnam covered by T.S.No.75, Waltair Ward, Block No.9 admittedly belonging to the Baptist Church. The said property was purchased by some of the defendants and others under 22 registered sale deeds in the year 1993, which were executed by S.M.Kantha Raju as President, P.Palas as Secretary, Marella Prasad Rao as Secretary/Attorney and Pallapati John as Chairman of the trust association. Therefore, originally the suit schedule property belongs to Baptist Church. It is the case of the plaintiff that annual convention of the Baptist Church was held at Visakhapatnam on 14-01-1985 under the supervision of Advocate Commissioner and no other valid convention was held and no valid election of office bearers took place until January, 2004. Therefore, S.M.Kantha Raju, Daniel Gandhi, M.Prakash Raju and P.Palas have no right at all to execute 22 sale deeds in favour of defendants 9 and 10 and others. It is not in dispute that S.M.Kantha Raju and others filed O.S.No.3 of 1994 on the file of the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Srikakulam for reliefs inter alia to declare that the plaintiff’s body of Baptist Church is the present functioning body of the Baptist Church; that all other parallel bodies of Baptist Church are illegal and without sanction of the constitution of the Baptist Church; and that all the alienations made by these defendants from the year 1979 till this date, are null and void by setting aside the sale deeds and other deeds executed by them and also to reimburse the plaintiffs organization the amounts received by the defendants by sale and transfer of properties of Baptist Church; and that the alienations and sale transactions made by the trust association of the plaintiff in favour of the group of companies headed by H.V. Jayaraj and J.M.Tyagaraju of Vijayawada are valid and binding on the defendants and that they have no right to interfere with the peaceful possession of the bona fide purchasers. Basing on the evidence available on record, the learned Judge held that by October, 1993, the plaintiff body therein has no right to deal with the sale of the trust property, but however, declaration of the sale transactions covered by Exs.A15 to A17 cannot be granted in view of the fact that properties are situated outside the territorial jurisdiction of the Court. Exs.A15 to A17 sale deeds deal with the properties in Visakhapatnam. Therefore, the suit was dismissed. On appeal in A.S.No.48 of 2000 before the District Judge, Srikakulam, the said dismissal of the suit was confirmed. The said
