Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 63 · Decided 16 February 1999
Hindu Public and ANR. v. Rajdhani Puja Samithee and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 63 · [1999] 1 S.C.R. 635
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2546/1992
- Decided
- 16 February 1999
- Bench
- M. JAGANNADHA RAO, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 91, 92; Registration Act
Headnote
B ,, Hindu Law: I< Orissa Hindu Religious Endowments Act, 1951 : Religious endowment~Public temple-Durga Puja and other religious c festivals celebrated on Government land since 1949-Later a Society was registered and lease of the very land obtained from Government for 90 years for the donations and religious festivals were celebrated regularly year after year-Held, temples are intended to be public temples in D ,.. which every member of the Hindu community entitled to enter as of light and ent1y not rest1icted to the members of the Society-Fact that membership of the
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