Hebron Church plea rejected

The City Civil Court here has rejected a plea from the Society of Trustees of Indigenous Churches in India to grant a permanent injunction restraining the Indigenous Churches in India Trust and its agents from any interference in the affairs of the Hebron Church at Golkonda X Roads, Musheerabad.

This is the main seat of power from where the religious entity is conducting its activities and guiding the heads of over 1,300 churches of the denomination in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Judge B. Prathima, delivering the order, made it clear that the court would only state that the Society of Trustees of Indigenous Churches in India failed to prove its case in requesting to restrain the defendants, namely the Indigenous Churches in India Trust and its members. “The court is not making any endeavor to decide if the Indigenous Churches in India Trust is having authority or custody over the management and affairs of the Hebron Church at Hyderabad,” the judge clarified. There are many legal tussles over the Hebron Church in Hyderabad and its activities.

The city civil court dealt with a plaint filed in 2014 by the Society of Trustees of Indigenous Churches in India, represented by its authorized representative R. Veerachary, who claimed that the society was established by Bhakt Singh, founder of Hebron Church in 1971, and that it has been maintaining all the activities after Bhakt Singh died in 2000.

He submitted that the society he represented is in physical or constructive possession of the said properties of Hebron Church. Some persons of the Indigenous Churches in India Trust were trying to enter the said properties, he said, and requested the court to issue necessary directions to restrain them.

After examining the evidence and records, the court felt that the documents submitted by Veerachary were insufficient to hold that the society to which he is representing is in existence and that it is managing and administering the affairs of Hebron Church at Hyderabad.