Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 218 · Decided 20 April 2005
M.P. Gopalakrishnan Nair and ANR. v. State of Kerala and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 218 · [2005] 3 S.C.R. 712
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6675/1999
- Decided
- 20 April 2005
- Bench
- H.K. SEMA, S.B. SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 25, 26
Headnote
Religious Endowments : Guruvayoor Devasawom Act, 1978-Section 4-Management and C administration of Hindu temple-Management Committee of Guruvayoor Devasawom-Nomination of members, by Hindu Ministers in Council of Ministers of left Democratic Front-Plea that nomination by Hindu Ministers illegal, not satisfied-Held: Debarring all 'Hindu' Ministers of leftist Government from nominating members would lead to stalemate in the D Management Committee-When members of Managing Committee have to be believers in temple worship, there cannot be insistence that electorate college should be
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