How Fr. Mathews Manalelchira‟s name came in the Media ...

candidates, likely to be elected. When confronted, the person circulating the letters, revealed that
the letters were given to him, with instructions to circulate by Mr. Reji Abraham, s/o Mr,N.K.
Abraham. The General Body, let Mr Reji off, with a warning not to repeat any such activities. The
meeting was then adjourned. The matter was reported to Bava Thirumeni. Thereafter, H.B issued a
Bull directing that the meeting should be conducted on29.3.2009, with “election of new office
bearers for 2009-2010” as the only point on the agenda.
The meeting was held on 29.3.2009 and office bearers were elected. This was subsequently
approved by HB. Some of the members of our Association, including Mr. P.I.Varghese, who were
defeated in the election FOR 2009-2010 held on 29.3.2009, got frustrated, conspired to wreak
vengeance against the current office bearers .They began to create disharmony among the Jacobite
Syrian Christians in Coimbatore. They fraudulently chose the name of our association as their
name and registered the same. This, they did by presenting a memorandum, by showing our place
as their Registered Office address, under the Societies Registration Act. It is not known whether
they did this by deceit or collusion. It is to be noted that the Office bearers of this registered
society registered under No.166/2009 have neither title nor possession of the place shown as their
registered address. BESIDES, THE REGISTRATION HAS BEEN DONE WITHOUT THE
KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL OF THE GENERAL BODY OF THE CHURCH OR WITH
APPROVAL OF THE SABHA.
The fraudulent registration by the Rebel Breakaway Group of 7, with different objectives
from the Parent Association has already created disharmony, hatred and ill feeling among the
Jacobite Syrian Christians in Coimbatore. Breakaway Group have ,in their constitution, further
thrown open the membership of their Association, strictly meant for Jacobite Syrian Christians, as
the name suggests, to all Indian Christians, thereby creating an explosive situation fraught with
communal disturbances, between different sections of the Syrian Christian Community of
Coimbatore.
The main intention of the Breakaway Group is to grab the assets and declaratory rights of
our association. Besides, this registration helped them in blocking our rightful registration, in the
future. After registration of their Association on 24.6.2009, their first activity was to forcefully
erect their name boards in the church and cemetery premises in order to grab the properties of the
church. This naturally resulted in police complaint and civil proceedings to lawfully establish our
rights. Eventually an ad interim injunction was granted by the Hon Dist. Munsiff, Coimbatore
prohibiting the Rebel Association members and office bearers in anyway interfering with our right
of peaceful enjoyment of our property
On 19.7.2009, when the Gereral Body meeting was in progress, Mr. P.I.Varghese and
Mr.Reji Abraham had abruptly left the meeting after creating chaos at the meeting. This was on the
insistence of the Vicar directing the duo, first to sign in the attendance book, before making any
submission in the meeting. Thereafter they returned with outsiders, and tried to fix their notice
board on the wall of the Church office/parsonage. The whole General Body members were agitated
and in the explosive situation that was prevailing then, anything could have happened. The tactful
handling of the issue by the vicar, Fr. Mathews Manalelchira saved the situation from
deteriorating. Rev Fr Mathews ordered all our members to get in to the church, promising that we