Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 675 · Decided 25 November 2004
Commissioner of Endowments and ORS. v. Vittal Rao and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 675 · [2004] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 374
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6246/1998
- Decided
- 25 November 2004
- Bench
- SHIVARAJ V. PATIL, B.N. SRIKRISHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 96(3); Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987; Ss. 1(3) 14, 16, 42, 80(/)(a) and (b)/Andhra Pradesh (Telengana Areas) Wakf Rules; Rule 156 : Donation of land by one person to another for the purpose of construction of a temple-Right of Successor of donee as or private, could be ascertained by applying certain tests/guidelines-Division Bench of the High D Court rightly held that since the gift made in respect of the temple land in favour of ancestor of respondent was absolute, temple constructed thereon was a private temple-Since the land not endowed,
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