Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 296 · Decided 13 December 1967
Gurcharan Prasad & ORS. v. P. Krishnanand Giri & ANR. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 296 · [1968] 2 S.C.R. 600
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 212/1965
- Decided
- 13 December 1967
- Bench
- R.S. BACHAWAT, G.K. MITTER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu Law--£ndowment-Mchanti of math carrying on ntOMY­ lending business, acquiring and disposing of properties-Properties how far personal-Religious head wheat her can own personal property. The successive Mahants of Uttar Giri Math in Benaras acquired pro­ perties and made of Mahant in 1904 entered into a mar­ riage against the custom of the brotherhood. One of his collatcrab th~ upon filed a suit in wh.ich be claimed to be put in possession of the pro­ perties of the Math, also challenging some of the dispositions of pro­ perly made by the Mahall!. 1lle
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