Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 190 · Decided 13 August 1968
Charity Commissioner, Bombay v. The Administrator of the Shringeri Math and Its Properties
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 190 · [1969] 1 S.C.R. 660
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1000/1965
- Decided
- 13 August 1968
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT, K.S. HEGDE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Registration Act
Headnote
Bombay Pu/>lic Trusts Act, 1950 ss. 2(9) and 2(13)-Definitions of· "Math" and "Public Trust"-if a branch Math /eJI within the defi11i1ions. The Assistant Charity Commissioner, Bombay, held an enquiry under s. 19 of the Bombay Public Trusts Act. 1950 and came to the Math situated in the State of Mysore was a public trust and liable to be registered under s. 18 of the Act. l'he Charity Commi!-.sioner in appeal confirmed this finding and an application under s. 72 to the District Judge by the respondent ",..is rejected on th~ view that the institution
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