Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 59 · Decided 8 March 1965
Fazlul Rabbi Pradhan v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 59 · [1965] 3 S.C.R. 307
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 392/1964
- Decided
- 8 March 1965
- Bench
- P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.C. SHAH, S.M. SIKRI (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act (Act 1 of 1954), s. 6(l)(i)­ "Cliaritab!e purpose", meaning of. The appellants were the respective mutawallis of two wakfs, in which either the ultimate benefit to the charity was postponed till after the exhaustion of the wakif's family and maintenance of the family side by side with expenditure for charitable or religious pur­ poses. Notices were issued by the Collector under the West Bengal . Estates Acquisition Act, 1953, to the appellants, calling upon them to hand over possession of the wakf estates, on the ground that
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