Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 245 · Decided 2 December 1970
Kakinada Annadana Samajam ETC. v. Commissioner of Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments, Hyderabad & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 245 · [1971] 2 S.C.R. 878
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1249/1970
- Decided
- 2 December 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER, A.N. RAY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226; Registration Act
Headnote
Her~di·tGry trustee-Office of-If 'property' lvithin the n1ea11ing of A rt. 19· of the Constitution . A B . Andhra Pradesh Charitablt and Hindu Religi()f(S Institutions and En- C dowments Act (17 of 1966), ss. 15, 17, 27. 36 and 97-lf violarive of 1Art. · 19 The appellants were hereditary trustees of religious and charitable institutions and endowments. · They claimed the right to manage and administer the secular estate of the ·institution or endowment of which tl.ey were hereditary trustees but never claimed proprietary or
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