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4. The High Court framed four issues. The main issue was whether the plaintiff Math was entitled to the ownership of the suit property and if so whether it was entitled to recover possession. Both sides led oral and  documentary evidence. After detailed consideration of the several documents exhibited by the parties and the oral evidence, the learned Single Judge who tried the suit, decreed the suit by judgment and decree dated 20.4.1993. He held that there was abundant evidence to show that the suit property belonged to the plaintiff Math and it was not the property of Viswakarma community residing at Komaleeswararpet, Chennai. He also accepted the case of the plaintiff Math that the Thirty Second Head of the plaintiff Math had installed the idol of the Goddess Meenakshi more than two centuries ago. The learned Single Judge also referred to the series of documents produced by the defendants themselves which stated that Meenakshiamman temple was situated in Parasamaya Kolerinatha Swami Math. The learned Single Judge held that merely because idols were installed and worshipped in a Math premises, the property will not cease to be a Math nor will it become a place of public religious worship.