Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 255 · Decided 20 October 1976
Commissioner for Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments, Mysore v. Ratnavarma Heggade (Deceased) BY His L.RS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 255 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 889
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 111/1971
- Decided
- 20 October 1976
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, P.N. SHINGAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hin~u Law-Religious Endowment-Hindu temple forming part of a Jain Instituion-When niay be treated as a Hindu religious endowment. Sectio1i 9(12) of the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1926 de­ fines 'temple' as a place, by whatever designation known, used as a pla~e cf to, or for the benefit of, or used as of right by the Hindu community, or any section thereof, as a place of religious worship. Section 9(11) provides that all property belonging to, or· given or endowed for the support of a temple or for the performance of any service or charity
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