Kuala Lampur, March 22 -- I agree if someone were to say that the prime minister should not be dragged into the issue of temple land ownership and management to avoid turning a legal matter into a political game.

The 2019 case of Ramachandran a/l Meyappan & Ors v Chellapan a/l K Kalimuthu & Ors decided by the High Court at Shah Alam is instructive on the law on indefeasibility against adverse claim to the title.

The case concerns Sri Maha Mariamman Temple (the Temple) erected on part of a piece of land in the Mukim of Damansara, District of Petaling, Selangor (the Land).

The Plaintiffs claimed, among others, (i) that the Temple was built in the 1880s by the Plaintiffs' ancestors when they worked for the "Seafield Rubber Estate"; (ii) t...